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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In my early 30s, for a few months, I altered my body chemistry and hormones so that I was closer to a man in his early 20s. I was blown away by how dramatically my thoughts changed.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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There is no more ethical group on this planet than ourselves.
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When I come in from the beach at night, I'm too hungry to wait for anything that takes very long.
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My brothers and sister and I were brought up in an atmosphere which I would describe as 'Puritan decadence'. Puritanism names the behaviour which is condemned; Puritan decadence regards the name itself as indecent, and pretends that the object behind that name does not exist until it is named.
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everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease.
