Stephen Spender (Sir Stephen Harold Spender) Quotes
You drive the landscape like a herd of clouds Moving against your horizontal tower Of steadfast speed. All England lies beneath you like a woman With limbs ravished By one glance carrying all these eyes.
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All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity - CW lets creators create and gives us freedom.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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I love taking chances.
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Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.
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Always wear sunscreen and wash your makeup off at night.
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We could try freedom for a while. We had it for a long time. That's where you sell something, and I agree to buy it because I like it. That is how we operate in most of rest of the marketplace other than health care.
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I'm trying to cultivate a long-term career rather than get every job right this minute. That'd be putting too much pressure on myself. I'd go crazy if I thought like that.
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The American public is sick and tired of being lied to.
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A lot of new girls are arriving every day - let them do the glamour roles! I am done with ultra glam outfits and five song routines - hereafter, I want to do meatier roles, now that I've acted with all the biggies.
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Be in love with your life every detail of it
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If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers. But a diamond is a diamond even if there are no customers.
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Everybody looks at their poop.
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Earning of livelihood by following some profession is better than living on charity.
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At the age of five she has already come to terms with one of the life's harshest lessons: that the world isn't fair.
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The most popular man under a democracy is not the most democratic man, but the most despotic man. The common folk delight in the exactions of such a man. They like him to boss them. Their natural gait is the goose step.
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I am pleased with the exhibition... everything on display was sold for a good price to decent people. It has been a long time since I believed that you could educate public taste.
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Not a lot of people have jobs that they're really comfortable with, but I'm one of those people.
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I never learned to count my blessings I choose instead to dwell in my disasters
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I looked down on a quilt of clouds, bordered on the horizon by the blood-orange streaks of the setting sun. As the steady hum of the engine drowned out the chatter around me, I realized that I would probably be thinking about the implications of Watergate for the rest of my life. For the country, and for me it had been a significant point in time. (page 263)
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You drive the landscape like a herd of clouds Moving against your horizontal tower Of steadfast speed. All England lies beneath you like a woman With limbs ravished By one glance carrying all these eyes.
