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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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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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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Hate is holding back humanity from its full potential.
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We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
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I look up to the older generation of men - Arthur Scargill, Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn - but my main role model has been my step-granddad Jim. He's brilliant, very political, quite eccentric.
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Faith affects the whole of man's nature. It commences with the conviction of the mind based on adequate evidence; it continues in the confidence of the heart or emotions based on conviction, and it is crowned in the consent of the will by means of which the conviction and confidence are expressed in conduct.
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everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease.
