John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
It is not difficult to grasp and express thoughts that float on the stream of current opinion: but to think and rightly utter what is permanently true and interesting, what shall appeal to the best minds a thousand years hence, as it appeals to them to-day,-this is the work of genius.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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I was 47 when I got pregnant. I'd been trying for a couple of years and thought it would never happen.
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we can do. We can do the transportation packages, like the highway bill and the water bill, and we can do some of these other areas - a farm bill - whatever it is, we lay out a schedule, and we put that committee to work to do that.'
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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I did two or three plays every summer.
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I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.
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I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.
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A life cycle can be imposed on an object. An object can be very energetic and active, and then it has a dying phase and a phase of decomposition.
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There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
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I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.
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I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
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It is not difficult to grasp and express thoughts that float on the stream of current opinion: but to think and rightly utter what is permanently true and interesting, what shall appeal to the best minds a thousand years hence, as it appeals to them to-day,-this is the work of genius.
