John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
In the world of thought a man’s rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.
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Miss Sarzin was the best teacher I ever had.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
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If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.
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I don't think the lifestyle that I have, the things going on in my life right now, you could put that on any 23-year-old kid. But, you know, I was raised right, and I'm prepared for whatever.
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It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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One thing any DJ needs in his crate, especially at a barbecue, is a selection of 15-minute-plus jams.
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Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
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Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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I think that probably the time that people stopped thinking of Starbuck as 'a woman' was when they stopped thinking of the old show.
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If I had different parents who were in it for the money, I might have a different perspective. But they really are artists; they intelligently approach each character and prepare in every sense of the word. I grew up in a world that had great discipline.
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I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.
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I'm so happy with what has happened in my life.
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The key is to maintain an evenness. Try to play one possession at a time, regardless of what happened on the last possession...
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These two enormous forces - truth and meaning - are at war in today's world. ...And something sooner or later has to give.
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The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We feel that we are living in a world in which the citizen has become a mere spectator or a forced actor, and that our personal experience is politically useless and our political will a minor illusion.
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I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
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In the world of thought a man’s rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.
