John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
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My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.
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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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When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.
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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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As a father of four, I want our children to enjoy the freedoms and opportunities that are the fruit of progressive values.
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David and Ellen Siminoff are legends in Silicon Valley - they are two of the most influential mentors to top executives and leaders behind the scenes, with long track records of success.
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I've been fortunate enough to travel with Oxfam several times, and they're always so well organized, so it was a good way to show the kind of work they're doing.
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Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
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They who think they know all, learn nothing.
