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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I hated the idea of a high school sweetheart. Growing up, oh my God, it just made me sick. I wanted to have a range of cool boyfriends. I wanted to travel around and date these interesting men. Then it just happened. You fall in love.
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The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
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Abby Johnson has agreed to become Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity, reflecting a further step forward in our leadership succession plan. Abby will retain her role of President, and I will continue to serve as Chairman of the Board.
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First impressions matter more in basketball than in any other sport, and they can be savored only in person. Players can't hide behind pads or helmets, so we can stare at them, evaluate every move they make: running, jumping, walking, even ogling the cheerleaders. We can see every ripple and tattoo. If they're lazy, we can tell.
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They who think they know all, learn nothing.
