John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
Be content that others have position, if thou hast ability: that others have riches, if thou hast virtue.
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So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.
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I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'
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Fashion's important to me, but beauty fades. All that stuff is fun while it lasts, but anything can happen tomorrow. You've got to have so much more about you than the way you look or your clothes.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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In response to the drop in wealth suffered as a consequence of the 2008 financial crisis, homeowners and firms did attempt to increase savings in financial assets by reducing expenditure on durables.
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Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.
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I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.
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Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.
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For many people, music is here to let them forget the daily chores of life.
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Man is a victim of dopeIn the incurable form of hope.
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An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that 'when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre.'
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We must recognise that in an integrated world, trade cannot be divorced from other concerns. We need to promote free trade and serious global efforts with respect to common problems even as we support every nation's right to chart its own course.
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I'm of the school that you've got to show a distinction between Democrats and Republicans. And in order to have the base energized, you've got to show that the party stands for something.
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There's an indie movie I did called 'Fat Kid Rules the World,' which was based on a teen book, and it's a fabulous story, and hopefully it'll go to theaters because it is an amazing story.
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It was like she'd become the sun, and I started revolving around her. She was my center.
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People say how unbelievable and enjoyable this whole thing must be. But watching your children play quarterback, putting themselves on the line every game, getting smacked around and bloodied up... it's very, very hard.
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Actors know one thing: If you're left just with words, you're in trouble.
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Traditionally in crime fiction, women exist as a bedroom convenience or to screw up in order that the plot may progress. I wanted no part of that.
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Improving SME productivity translates into more and better paying jobs, distributed across less fortunate sections of the economy.
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Be content that others have position, if thou hast ability: that others have riches, if thou hast virtue.
