John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.
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I actually don't think there is any difference between French and American cuisine. French cuisine was always about discipline, about ingredient, about creativity, but also about simple. I see America as very similar in these rights.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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Little boys have amazing minds.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to.
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Today we understand that reality corresponds to a model - or, even better, the sum of various models - which in science are termed "complex systems" - not complicated or difficult, that's a different thing! This complexity is what creates that which we all know - the World - is connected in a system of networks - and I'm not referring only to the internet but also to thousands of analog networks in which we are all immersed at every instant.
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Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.
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Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in.
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The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead.
