John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one’s self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able.
John Lancaster Spalding
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
Larry Wall
I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
Idris Elba
I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
Jack Reynor
I'm a big fan of the 'Rocky' series. Given the chance, I'd love to meet Sylvester Stallone. But apart from boxing, I'm an ardent fan of tennis and football.
Vijender Singh
I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a normal person!
Dakota Blue Richards
Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.
Dan Gilbert
Little known fact about me...do you know the first words I ever spoke were Bobby Orr ...thanks to my hockey fanatic grandfather saying his name over and over and over to me until I eventually repeated it.
Ken Casey
Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he's going to make a skateboard ramp. It's just a mosh pit down there, so they can do whatever they want. We're not even going to finish it.
Candice Olson
Over in the UK, the music press can be brutal. They can say wonderful things about you one week, and the next week, you're in the can.
Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin
Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.
Newell Dwight Hillis
If I'm such a fucking menace? This shit doesn't make sense, B! It's all political. If my music is literal, then I'm a criminal. How the FUCK can I raise a little girl? I couldn't, I wouldn't be fit to.
Eminem
The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one’s self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able.
John Lancaster Spalding