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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I'm not cynical when it comes to things that are important. I'm cynical about pop culture and all that horseshit.
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Economically, legally, and politically powerless throughout much of western history, women have been linked to nature and the unknowable through metaphors of the body while the masculine has signified culture and mental activity.
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It's a combination of targeting higher paying jobs in these growth areas and fostering closer cooperation with higher education; a rising tide that lifts all boats.
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In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.
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I decided if I couldn't be a writer, my life would be miserable. I had this imaginary room of references to all the books I had read, a kind of bubble, in which I lived.
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Not to be able to utter one’s thought without giving offence, is to lack culture.
