John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
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I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.
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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.
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There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
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I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.
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I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.
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Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
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A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it's been tested by recession and all manner of challenges - I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
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In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.
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It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood!
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My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
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Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
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I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvas for it, and the scene should be -- solitude, and the figures -- solitude -- and the lights and shades, each a solitude.
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The Holy Koran, our religious book, teaches us, that we who declare ourselves to be righteous Muslims, do not participate in no wars, in no way, fashion or form, that take the lives of other humans.
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Stephen Sondheim is calculus for actors. The words are witty and brilliant and profound but complicated.
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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
