John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
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I would like to do something to help people and help the world.
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He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.
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To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
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People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.
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I think, 'Scott Pilgrim,' it was something where the general audience didn't necessarily understand straight away what it was.
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I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.
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I've always believed in myself, and it's such a long competition over two days, you can't worry about what anyone else is doing.
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When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
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Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate change.
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To a generation beaten down by skyrocketing unemployment, plunging retirement savings, and mounting home foreclosures, 'Mad Men' offers the schadenfreude-filled message that their predecessors were equally unhappy - and that the bleakness meter in American life has always been set on high.
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I could have coached better.
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Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
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Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.
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I studied business and also studied film, then I graduated, and I worked at a network. I was able to use my business skills there - I was an associate producer for a little bit.
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People follow me because I am just a normal person, and they can relate to me.
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I have always felt strongly about empowering women. I'm living proof that, with confidence and by believing in yourself, you can accomplish any goal.
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Terrorists are people, too - they are given to error. Naipaul and then DeLillo do a good job in their novels of drawing this out: I'm thinking of DeLillo's contention in 'Mao II' that terrorists have replaced writers as the people who 'alter the inner-life of the culture.' I thought that was marvellous!
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When you see a merger between two giants in a declining industry, it can look like the financial version of a couple having a baby to save a marriage.
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You know how it is in L.A. You go to restaurants at four in the afternoon, and they're packed because everyone is an actor, and no one is working.
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As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace?
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Thank god there's no 48-hour race anywhere in the world, because chances are nobody could beat Porsche in a 48 hour race. They're probably the only cars in the world that would stand up for something like that.
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I think chemistry is being frittered away by the hairsplitting of the organic chemists; we have new compounds discovered, which scarcely differ from the known ones and when discovered are valueless-very illustrations perhaps of their refinements in analysis, but very little aiding the progress of true science.
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Take a dose of rock and roll, and wash it down with cool clear soul.
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They who think they know all, learn nothing.
