John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
Rules of grammar can not give us a mastery of language, rules of rhetoric can not make us eloquent, rules of conduct can not make us good.
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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This town was built on nepotism.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I've eaten ice cream from all over the world, but until you've tasted Graham's from Geneva, Illinois, you haven't had ice cream at all.
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I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
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I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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I kind of see myself as a cartoon that's on its way to becoming a real person that has to find that special amulet or mushroom to get to that next realm or level. I don't feel like anything is that tangible. It freaks me out, why I feel unhappy or conflicted and why that can change on a dime.
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If there used to be 100 people at a major working on a record, now there are 18, but they're the good ones. There's a lean, mean hunger.
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We uploaded 'Ocean Eyes' to SoundCloud, and it started getting a lot of plays pretty much immediately.
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I think you're a little more fragile when you're younger.
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And I say in the book, 'Hard Measures,' that actually they were pretty wimpy if you really - if the American people actually knew what these techniques where, they would say, what are you talking about?
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Rules of grammar can not give us a mastery of language, rules of rhetoric can not make us eloquent, rules of conduct can not make us good.
