John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
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I literally don't think about Oscar.
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When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.
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The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.
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An evening dress that reveals a woman's ankles while walking is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties.
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I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.
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I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.
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Nothing is so good for the morale of the troops as occasionally to see a dead general.
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Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds?
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I hate short hair on men - the 'real' man is something I don't know. My dad was always playing with hairbands, making rings, while the women were wearing jeans, white T-shirts and Converse. That was the uniform at home.
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Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.
