John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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My quick beauty tip is always have a tinted gloss of some kind to give you some color even if you have no makeup on.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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I enjoy my life.
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A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth.
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The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
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Steve Jobs was never going to let Flash on any Apple product again like that after in 1997 - he's got a long memory - they said no and Bill Gates said yes.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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What I'm doing with my body and with my golf game, I'm trying to extend the longevity of my career.
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I've done everything I can in my life to be the best person I can be, and I can look in the mirror and say that.
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You can be very fulfilled as a mother, but that can't be the only way you are fulfilled. What about being a woman? What about being yourself? Your awareness of what's happening in the world? It lives altogether in a way that makes a whole. I guess I'd say I'm the wholest I've ever been.
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It's the first movie I feel really proud of. But I know it's not a movie for everyone. Some people will embrace it, but some people will hate it, and I'm not really sure how to deal with that. In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.
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Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble.
