John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
Quotes to Explore
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Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.
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It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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I've taken the love of fashion from my mother, and journalism from my father.
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My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I couldn't speak any English when I first left Russia, and Intimissimi taught me everything. The team was like a family to me - they showed me how to model and how to stay in shape. They really believed in me.
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I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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I think a lot more people are starting to understand the power of YouTube.
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I think the writing skills of actors are sometimes underestimated.
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I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.
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I don't even want to touch on the topic of black quarterback, because I think this game is bigger than black, white or even green.
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I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.
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I missed a lot of school for auditions, but other than that I had a very normal childhood.
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I would love to write a screenplay for 'Badlands' one day. I don't think I could ever have the patience to do it; I don't even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don't have the patience.
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You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way.
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Certainly, my father would not want to see me destroy myself in this business, as so many people in our family have been destroyed. I try to take good care of myself, but we are fighting the good fight, and the truth is powerful.
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It is instructive to see how organizations pursue their goal of reducing errors and uncertainty. They impose standards, employ checklists, demand that knowledge workers list assumptions for their conclusions and document all sources. These actions either directly interfere with forming insights or create an environment where insights and discoveries are treated with suspicion because they might lead to errors. They signal to knowledge workers that their job is not to make mistakes. Even if they don't make discoveries, no one can blame them as long as they don't make mistakes.
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I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and adherence to rituals.
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Strange, is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy - 'Be strong!' 'Know thyself!' 'Hitch your wagon to a star!' - how often these die away into dim whispers when we face these seething millions of black men? And yet do they not belong to them? Are they not their heritage as well as yours?
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God's graciousness is not totally removed from any individual during this lifetime. In hell, it is.
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When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
