John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
A Wise man knows that much of what he says and does is commonplace and trivial. His thoughts are not all solemn and sacred in his own eyes. He is able to laugh at himself and is not offended when others make him a subject whereon to exercise their wit.
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
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I was 47 when I got pregnant. I'd been trying for a couple of years and thought it would never happen.
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.
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To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I'm less interested in how people are following each other and more interested in how they are following topics and tweets themselves. People are following more key words and concepts and more ideas and acting on those rather than individuals or organizations.
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But I think we need the international market.
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'Sleepless' was the first thing that came out and really gained a lot of traction online.
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Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
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In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
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I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.
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When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him.
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I'm just a worker.
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Lovers should also have their days off.
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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It is only by the amplification of titles that you can often touch and satisfy the imagination of nations; and that is an element which Governments must not despise.
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I feel like all four of us are really powerful in our messages, what we speak about, and what we are about.
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Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.
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It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation.
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We are seeing with great grief that America remains quiet as Turkey struggles against terrorism. Because there were promises given to us, and they need to be kept. If not, we can take care of our own business.
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A Wise man knows that much of what he says and does is commonplace and trivial. His thoughts are not all solemn and sacred in his own eyes. He is able to laugh at himself and is not offended when others make him a subject whereon to exercise their wit.
