John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
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In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.
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I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
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I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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When I go to clubs, I don't have to wait outside.
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I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
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Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.
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The way I choose to live my own life rates time and space as real luxuries.
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You have to handle adversity well. There are roadblocks you will have to fight through.
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I think people with open minds will observe the way we do things and realize that our goal is to have successful, happy, productive adults, and they will take our ideas and implement them elsewhere for their own children.
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The zest of life lies in right doing, not in the garnered harvest.
