John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
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I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
Carlene Carter
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Humor is a wonderful way to deal with our suffering because if we can laugh at our troubles, we can feel better. Thich Nhat Hanh is a special man who has helped millions with their suffering with incredible technique. But he doesn't know real suffering, because he has not dated as much as I have.
Garry Shandling
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
Ian Mckellen
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
Gail Sheehy
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
Laura Riding
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There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
Ted Nugent
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
Zygmunt Bauman
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
Harold Warner
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
Nathan Fillion
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
Ira Glass
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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
Og Mandino
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This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
Gary North
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
Walter Kirn
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It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.
Edmund S. Muskie
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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.
K. Eric Drexler
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But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.
Lafcadio Hearn
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I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many sorts which are okay, like the ones I think which most of us have in bed at night before we fall asleep, when we can see all sorts of patterns or faces and scenes.
Oliver Sacks
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My mom is very close to me, and it has been really cool having a mom that's closer to my age because she can go out with me and stuff.
Lindsay Lohan
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What I would like to be remembered for is that Walter Washington changed the spirit of the people of this city, that he came in as mayor when there was hate and greed and misunderstanding among our people and the races were polarized.
Walter Washington
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In basketball, I always had a first step. A separation step. That works now, too.
Antonio Gates
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I have been talking to trade ministers in various countries who all say that gender inclusivity is important to them. We need to make this importance visible to the rest of the world and catalyse action towards more inclusive trade.
Arancha Gonzalez
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In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
Baz Luhrmann
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The will-the one thing it is most important to educate-we neglect.
John Lancaster Spalding