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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You have to find out how to become the character.
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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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Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.
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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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Now to explore the limits of the one competitor above everyone else you've always loved to face: Steve Prefontaine.
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The people that keep coming back every year are diehards. I'll go out there to host a panel and I know half of the audience. I see them, every year, and they come back for more because they believe in us. That's one of the coolest things.
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There aren't many idealists in politics.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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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.
