John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
Not to be able to utter one’s thought without giving offence, is to lack culture.John Lancaster Spalding
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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.
Tamsin Greig -
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.
G-Eazy -
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.
Walther Bothe -
I'm more of a 5 Live man. But I might listen to a bit of Coldplay or The Smiths.
Gary Lineker -
If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
Eckhart Tolle -
I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.
Tao Lin
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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.
Daniel Boulud -
The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.
Zygmunt Bauman -
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.
Carl Honore -
When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.
Park Chan-wook -
I don't understand anything about America's culture.
P. J. O'Rourke -
In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
Abbas Kiarostami
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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.
Viktor E. Frankl -
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. Somerset Maugham -
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.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.
Rand Paul -
As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen -
In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.
Laura Dern
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World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?
L.A. Reid -
Diabetes is a great example whereby, giving the patient the tools, you can manage yourself very well.
Clayton Christensen -
Most shows get dumped by the networks, do a couple of years in syndication, then they're in the vault. 'Mission: Impossible' has never been off the screen.
Peter Graves -
You can't write something to please someone.
Sean Durkin -
Not to be able to utter one’s thought without giving offence, is to lack culture.
John Lancaster Spalding