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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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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My favourite Nice restaurant is in the market. It's open mainly for the market people, and shuts in August.
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I stay in contact with my castmates from 'Atlanta' almost every day.
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Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good.
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I'll miss all my teammates. I'll miss Elvis (Andrus) and (Adrian) Beltre, Mitch (Moreland), Matt Harrison and [manager Ron] Washington. To be honest with you, I hope they go 0-162. I got friends, and I love my friends, but I hope they lose their ass.
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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.
