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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Her shoulders sagging, her back hunched, her eyelids tired, Rose-Anna sewed for the feast, not daring even to sing for fear of frightening off her joy.
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Trauma happens to us, our friends, our families, and our neighbors. Research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has shown that one in five Americans was sexually molested as a child; one in four was beaten by a parent to the point of a mark being left on their body; and one in three couples engages in physical violence. A quarter of us grew up with alcoholic relatives, and one out of eight witnessed their mother being beaten or hit.
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The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal existence into one that was more fully human.
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Not only are utilities switching from coal and oil to gas, but also trucking, schoolbuses, garbage trucks, and even taxi fleets.
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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.
