John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
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Well, I'm a Texas boy, and we have denim in our blood.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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I think that it's hard enough being an adolescent and wanting so much to fit in with your peers, your schoolmates, and to erase any sign of difference, to be part of the group. And being biracial but also being black in a predominately white school marked me as different.
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My own personal goal is I just hope to still write songs and kind of let that sustain me as a job. If I could never have a 9-to-5 job, and making a living doing this, it'd just be incredible.
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The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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My dad was a serious alcoholic, and ultimately, that's why he died. When you're a child of someone who struggled with things like that, you look for the common thread. Is there a pattern? Is there an inheritance of pathology in some way? That haunts me.
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People know not to mess with my friends or my family because it's not going to work out well for you.
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I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.
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My message with 'LazyTown' has always been really simple; I just want to get kids and families moving together.
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We want everybody to be bossed up.
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I used to sing Chaka Khan tunes in the car with my mum when I was eight years old.
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One of the smartest things you can do on 'Chopped' is to take one of those ingredients and make a pickle out of it, because almost every dish benefits from that. I'm feeling like those intuitions are becoming more natural.
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I love TV. I know all the theme songs from the shows I watch. I'm not one of those who'd rather be a movie star. I prefer TV because of the rushed way of working-on a movie set, you sit around and wait and wait to do a scene because they're adjusting the lights.
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All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate them.
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Poets know their own poems in a way and to a depth that is unique.. even if they mumble a bit ..their delivery will still have important things to tell us.
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But we need not only a new generation of weapons. We need a new generation of thinking. That means strengthening and renewing our key alliances.
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The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.
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I can deal with imperfection, but I can't deal with people who lie to themselves and lie to the world to make the world feel better.
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My family is well, and that's what's important.
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That's my suggestion for kids who want to act, by the way: Make sure it's really your choice, get out of it when it stops being fun, and get an education.
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A Syrian war would consume Trump's presidency.
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Beauty least adorned is most adorned
