John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
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I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent into a system, and we lose some of their boldness by that. Obviously, you have to learn the ropes, but I think it's important to do that without hammering out the radicalness that makes innovation happen.
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I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
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I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.
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You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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You have to communicate with your teammates; you have to be on a string. There are a lot of things that go into a play. And then you are guarding a two or three, which is probably one of their better players on the team, so you're focused on them.
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When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.
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And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!
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I really hate rubber ducks, actually.
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The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.
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Everyone is trying to make these huge songs; I just make things that I want to listen to. Music that I will be comfortable listening to 10 years from now, that's my only thing.
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I have to keep testing myself.
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Frank Stella is not interested in expression or sensitivity. He is interested in the necessity of painting.. .His stripes are the paths of brush on canvas. These path leads only into painting.
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For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.
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The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.
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Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?
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This is not to be cocky, but, I go over real well at Comic-Con. I've done quite a few Comic-Cons, and I enjoy the hell out of them. They are so much fun, and so bizarre. I've done the FX Show in Florida, Wizard-World in Chicago, Comic-Con in San Diego, Wonder-Con in San Francisco, the Comic-Con in New York, and I've done them numerous times.
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I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there's no connection.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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It was actually my partner, Bernard Edwards, who helped me develop my sort of funky jazz style.
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Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
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It's also a reasonable scientific program to look at the dynamics of the standard model and to try to prove from that dynamics that it is computationally capable.
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It is unpleasant to turn back, though it be to take the right way.
