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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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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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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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
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The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in small states as well as large states.
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Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.
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We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
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I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.
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In truth, we are all part of the team of humanity. And as such, we are all obligated to share ourselves, and our talents, for the sake of the team.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness.
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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.
