John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
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I love music and I love musicians and when I hear something that's great, I always say it's like you go to a movie and you can't wait to tell your friends about it.
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You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.
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I'm not a divorce monger by any means, but if you're not happy in a relationship, and you've grown apart, it's not healthy for a couple to stay together. It's better for kids to see two happy parents than two miserable parents.
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Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.
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Socrates gave a lifetime to the outpouring of his substance in the shape of the greatest benefits bestowed on all who cared to receive them. In other words, he made those who lived in his society better men and sent them on their way rejoicing.
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I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.
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The best way to use the gold of the Redeemer is for the redemption of those in peril.
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Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.
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The world is still sexist.
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If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
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My first job, which I had to take when not more than fifteen, was assistant to a fruit peddler. It seemed all right to me until a little girl told me snootily, 'We never deal with peddler!' Thereupon I resigned, ashamed of what I was doing.
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When locational information is collected, people should be given advance notice and a chance to opt out. Data should be erased as soon as its main purpose is met.
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My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
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Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.
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I don't want to be someone that, when people look back, they think, 'Yeah, cool, he made us jump around for a bit in 2010.'
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I will remember all the days at the Olympics.
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I am a man of few words, but many riddles.
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We have to realize we are building a movement.
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The Tour de France is a wicked sport in the way that it's not just man against man or woman against woman; it's not flesh against flesh. It's flesh against machine.
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I didn't think it was cool for me to walk around with a huge Kygo logo on myself.
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Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
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I am not sure how much I would like being married if I wasn't married to him. A man who likes flea markets and isn't gay? I knew I was lucky.
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If thou wouldst be implacable, be so with thyself.
