John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
Believe in no triumph which is won by the deadening of human faculty or the dwarfing of human life. Strive for truth and love, not for victory.
Quotes to Explore
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Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I wouldn't trade a thing. Even the troubles that I had. I have become the husband and mate to my wife that I have because of what I went through, including the bad times. I wouldn't trade that.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
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I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
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There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.
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If I grew up with a dysfunctional family, I would eventually start a book club.
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You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from.
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I've reached the 50th year of my life, and now every question related with life also includes thinking about death. When I leave, I want to leave to my offspring a clear idea about identity.
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Men look on knowledge which they learn--or might learn--from others as they do on the most beautiful structures which are not their own: in outward objects, they would rather behold their own hogsty than their neighbor's palace; and in mental ones, would prefer one grain of knowledge gained by their own observation to all the wisdom of a thousand Solomons.
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Believe in no triumph which is won by the deadening of human faculty or the dwarfing of human life. Strive for truth and love, not for victory.
