John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
Since the mass of mankind are too ignorant or too indolent to think seriously, if majorities are right it is by accident.
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Helping set the day's agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting as well. Just doing the news - the live performance - wasn't important. Working on the desk was.
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Nobody's going to give you everything on a silver tray. It's going to be difficult.
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was not engaged in subversive work; she was an apolitical project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the Reuters news agency.
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Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.
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The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'
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I just think that is so important to keep a strong support system, to keep yourself encouraged.
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There are a lot of folks out there that love the convenience of the Kansas City airport. That's one of the biggest things it's got going for it.
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The past is open to all sorts of magical possibilities because it can't be verified. It's as we make it, so it seems to be entirely free. It seems to be completely up for grabs. But of course it's not.
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My father was a misanthrope who slept all day and stayed up all night so that he wouldn't have to see people. He ran a business with a large staff but would go there at night and leave things for them to do during the day when he wasn't there.
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I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.
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All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented few, centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living as to have no aims higher than their bellies and no God greater than Gold.
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They have horses in 'Snow White?' I am lucky nothing nasty happens to horses in 'Snow White.'
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In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
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You can look at everything from pre-Heisman to post-Heisman, and I think that's why it ranks up at the top, because before then, I didn't even think I was good enough to be a professional ballplayer.
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By the time I left the bar, I was 30. I was a dishwasher. They call it a bar-back, but essentially, I washed dishes for a living. I had no high-school diploma, I had no agent, and my literary successes were non-existent... but it was the only thing I ever wanted to do, so I did feel trapped.
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When I was a child it was very clear what I was allowed to see and what I was not allowed to see and there was no discussion or option or negotiation. Whatever my mom said, that's what went down.
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If I'm talking about something current, a current issue or something political, it's because I was able to read it when I was on the plane getting to the gig... a lot of it happens when I'm on the road because when I'm home, you're just mom, and that's it.
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Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes, by making these the fruit of his character.
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Content is a glimpse.
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Resist the temptation to subject yourself only to that which re-affirms what you already think.
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I've never been really great at trusting anybody, just because of the way I grew up.
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Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope.
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Simon Critchley's 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' - it's a quick thumbnail sketches of philosophers through the ages.
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Since the mass of mankind are too ignorant or too indolent to think seriously, if majorities are right it is by accident.
