John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.
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I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
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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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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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The more work I do, the more important it is to work with people I like - who are very talented.
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I don't love duck nails, where the nails are really wide on top. I am not a fan of that!
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The essence of all religions is love, compassion and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. No matter whether you are learned or not, whether you believe in the next life or not, whether you believe in God or Buddha or some other religion or not, in day-to-day life you must be a kind person.
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I perform regularly with a theater company called Outside the Wire who take performances of Greek tragedy to American-military audiences around the world to create discussion about PTSD and soldier suicide. It's one of the greatest things I've ever been asked to do as an actor.
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The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave alike.
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If thou wouldst be implacable, be so with thyself.
