John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.
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I just have a connection with sign language. I always thought the deaf community was a different community to be a part of. In high school, me and my friend took sign language.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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Love prefers twilight to daylight.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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I may write about place and displacement, but what I'm really writing about is dispersion, evasion, ambivalence: not so much a subject as a move in everything I write.
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Our to-do lists are so full that we can't hope to complete every item on them. So what do we do? We multitask, juggling several things at once, trying to keep up by keeping busy.
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Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.
