John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
If thou hast sought happiness and missed it, but hast found wisdom instead, thou art fortunate.
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home.
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I was at art school that had quite a celebrated film course as well. I tried for that film course when I was 18, but they said I was too young. I tried this audio and visual design course instead. Two years later, I reapplied for that higher course, but they said I was still too young and to try in five years.
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One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art.
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Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
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Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.
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I was always the smallest role in community theater and school plays. I always had two lines - I was the kid that came on stage and said one thing and then left, and that was my part for the play.
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The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.
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Tell the lie over and over and over. It's an art that Trump understands well. There's no better evidence than his absolutely false claim that he opposed the Iraq War in 2002.
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I really love fan art, which I get sent a lot of. I really, really get a lot of. I get a kick out of it.
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You don't have a balanced life if you don't have art.
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I am running for re-election no matter who runs.
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Designers and musicians are primed to keep thinking forward. Once an album or collection launches, you can only think about doing the next one.
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I have no style. There are certain people who just have a visual sense that defines their work. You could probably watch 30 seconds of anything they do and you'll know exactly who directed it. I don't have that skill.
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THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them.
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If thou hast sought happiness and missed it, but hast found wisdom instead, thou art fortunate.
