John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.John Lancaster Spalding
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
Rachel Kushner -
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?'
J. B. Smoove -
Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
Felicia Day -
One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
Zayn Malik One Direction -
These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
Viktor Orban -
You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
J. Martin Kohe
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
Jackson Pollock -
I'm not a sun person.
Laura Prepon -
Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
Laura Bush -
Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
Barack Obama -
The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
Gary Zukav -
Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
Nancy Gibbs
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I guess he wanted to see a little more sexual activity because in real life, in bed I think less is more and let the woman come to me. Frankly, I don't even need a woman there.
Garry Shandling -
It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
W. H. Davies -
In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?
Sam Yagan -
While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
Barry Silbert -
I take certain steps to make sure I'm relevant artistically. I always have new music and a reason to be on the road. I'm not just playing 'Get By' over and over. I have 12 albums.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
Manuel Puig
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Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a soil rich in wild species ... Mankind has opted for monoculture; it is in the process of creating a mass civilization, as beetroot is grown in the mass. Henceforth, man's daily bill of fare will consist only of this one item.
Claude Levi-Strauss -
We can never protect the rights by only thinking about our rights. By performing the universal responsibility with a compassionate mind, you can protect your own right and that of others.
Lobsang Tenzin -
I know this one pusher walks around humming a tune and everybody he passes takes it up. He is so grey and spectral and anonymous they don't see him and think it is their own mind humming the tune.
William S. Burroughs -
Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity.
Rory Stewart -
I'm very interested in film, but any more involvement would happen organically. I'm not really seeking anything out, just looking at projects that come up that interest me.
Tavi Gevinson -
The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.
John Lancaster Spalding