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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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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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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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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Sochi started with the same problem as every Winter Olympics. Forget the crass commercialism, the fake amateurism, NBC's refusal to televise important events live to all its viewers. As an event, the Winter Games fail on the most basic level. They're lousy to watch.
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I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them.
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I think that the story of a woman who is coming into her powers can really happen at any age.
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There's always been really interesting, diverse black voices talking and arguing and counterpointing.
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It's a guilty pleasure that things I loved as a kid I now have the power to put into motion and up on screen.
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I still get nervous before every performance.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.
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Be content that others have position, if thou hast ability: that others have riches, if thou hast virtue.
