John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
To love the perfection with which we do our work, or the company of those with whom we work, is the secret of learning to love the work itself.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
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Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.
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When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
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The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.
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I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths.
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Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about life and society.
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They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.
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There are a lot of women screenwriters, but they are obviously outnumbered by men. And it still is a very much male-dominated industry.
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Broken things are powerful."Things about to break are stronger still.The last shot from the brittle bow is truest.
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To me, it's about always trying to make decisions that reflect my leadership and who I am.
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To love the perfection with which we do our work, or the company of those with whom we work, is the secret of learning to love the work itself.
