Stephen Spender (Sir Stephen Harold Spender) Quotes
When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.
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There is always pressure in football.
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There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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I remember the first time I stepped into the ring at age 16. I loved hitting things... but who likes getting hit?!
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
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I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
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I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.
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I love David's attitude in the Bible. He wasn't afraid to go against the trends. He wasn't going to be defined by the opinions of others.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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I always like to play roles where I either love the character or think that it's a story that I can tell better than anyone else. There are always reasons for me to do whatever I do.
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When 'Ice Ice Baby' was selling a million records a day, I bought several properties: a home next to Michael J. Fox in L.A., a palace in Miami and a mountain cabin in Utah. Then, a few years later, I took a break from touring, saw that my properties had cobwebs, so I sold them, and - to my surprise - I made a huge profit!
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Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
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I have a box of things from Becca, my high school girlfriend, and Vanessa; and each one of them was love. I have the notes, the valentines, 20 mixed tapes, all of it. It's important to keep that stuff.
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It is long overdue that we have a woman as a legitimate contender for the White House. But Hillary Clinton is the definition of the establishment so many are determined to reject.
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The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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What I try very hard to do is have an hour or so in the morning when I leave the house and don't have my phone with me. I'll go sit in a cafe and read and handwrite in my notebook and not be facing a screen. My head will be clear. I will be able to hear myself think. Because honestly for the rest of the day it's just screens, screens, screens.
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There's this element of surprise when you're writing songs, like it's something outside of you that you get to be part of. And it's just exciting. And that's why I keep writing - because I like that feeling.
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The most abysmal advise ever given by the ignorant to the stupid.
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What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. What is the soul? It is immaterial.
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When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.
