John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
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Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
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I'm always trying to make myself laugh. I'm the most enthusiastic audience I'm likely to find, so if it doesn't make me smile then it probably won't work on you. The jokes that only make me shrug get cut.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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People always ask me if I'm nervous about the intense sci-fi fans. To me that doesn't seem weird or scary. I get really intense about my favorite sci-fi shows, my favorite shows in general.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.
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No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.
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There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of religion, and either you belong or you don't belong.
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He who hesitates is a damned fool.
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Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball.
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Right now I'm on my God flow, you know what I mean? I got Job 1:21 tattooed on my chest.
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I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.
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My dream is to have a bed of my own in Los Angeles and one in Sweden.
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I have an over-attachment to precision, which is why I've sold more magazines than any man alive.
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Would but some wing'ed Angel ere too late Arrest the yet unfolded Roll of Fate, And make the stern Recorder otherwise Enregister, or quite obliterate!
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They can say anything they want to say Try to bring me down But I won't face the ground
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Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.
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It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.
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I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.
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Break not the will of the young, but guide it to right ends.
