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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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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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
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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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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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The only fear I have is that I will wake up one day and nobody will allow me to do films. This is a fear every actor has.
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But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
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A robot may not injure humanity, or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
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I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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I used to think the secret to a happy ending was to bring down the curtain at the exact right time. A moment after happiness, then everything's all wrong, again.
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Capitalists seem uninterested in capitalism, even as eager entrepreneurs can't get financing. Businesses and investors sound like the Ancient Mariner, who complained, 'Water, water everywhere - nor any drop to drink.'
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I have a very high expectation for everything I do. And when I go out and compete, I expect myself to make every play.
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The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.
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I'm starting to find out that a lot of people that you wouldn't think listen to me really do.
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'Form follows function' comes with so much baggage. It's a worthless phrase because you'll never take it for what it means.
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Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo.
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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.
