John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
Not to be able to utter one’s thought without giving offence, is to lack culture.
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
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I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
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Rossi was the first to describe another system working with valves in parallel; it has the advantage that it can easily be extended to coincidences between more than two events, and is therefore predominantly used today.
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I'm more of a 5 Live man. But I might listen to a bit of Coldplay or The Smiths.
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If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
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I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.
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I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I spent time discovering the culture because I thought I was going to stay in America for only two years. Then I decided to come to New York.
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The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.
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We live in a culture that's been hijacked by the management consultant ethos. We want everything boiled down to a Power Point slide. We want metrics and 'show me the numbers.' That runs counter to the immensely complex nature of so many social, economic and political problems. You cannot devise an algorithm to fix them.
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When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.
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I don't understand anything about America's culture.
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In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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I feel creatively vibrant. I have some great friends; I feel like I'm capable of giving a lot to the world. And ultimately, that's what I really care about, is just giving.
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Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.
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As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.
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In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.
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We can decrease abuse and murder when we get that for both sexes, abuse does not derive from power, but powerlessness.
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There are two reasons why I'm in show business, and I'm standing on both of them.
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I believe in a progressive tax structure that fairly distributes the costs of government in a way that those of us fortunate to have more, carry more of the burden.
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Marketing is always a tricky thing with a rated R movie. Sometimes people just get what it is and they want to come see it, and sometimes you have to explain it more.
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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up.
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Not to be able to utter one’s thought without giving offence, is to lack culture.
