Muriel Spark Quotes
everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease.
Quotes to Explore
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.
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The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
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You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don't take their drugs, and they actually go into these crises, end up in the hospital.
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Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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I did charity events with the Cup all the time.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.
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Life isn't always really glamorous and fabulous. It's about encouraging people to go back to natural beauty.
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The stuff I write I'm very proud of, but I'm smart enough to know I'll never get on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' next to Elvis Costello.
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My wife is very supportive.
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When I tell people I'm an Italian Jew, they're very amused by it. But obviously by blood I'm Jewish, because my mother is.
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When you see U2 or the Rolling Stones, after years of knowing each other, they don't have to look at each other to connect.
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Our revolution is like Wikipedia, okay? Everyone is contributing content, [but] you don't know the names of the people contributing the content. This is exactly what happened. Revolution 2.0 in Egypt was exactly the same. Everyone is contributing small pieces, bits and pieces. We drew this whole picture of a revolution. And no one is the hero in that picture.
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Sometimes I make an analogy that each scientific paper is like putting out another record. And some people have careers that are nothing but a one-hit wonder. And then there are people who are only appreciated by aficionados but largely forgotten by the wider community.
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I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to western Europe during the Reagan era are feeling appropriately stupid today. 'Please don't take away our precious Soviet Union! - We demand the annihilation of all life on Earth!'
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Wonder opens and unravels reality.
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I think that artists and musicians can do as much harm as good for causes if they tie their names to lots of things, especially if they aren't really doing much to meaningfully push their causes forward.
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everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease.
