John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
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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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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 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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Don Was is a friend of mine; we've done projects together over the years.
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I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.
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Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.
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Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against the human condition both for its incompleteness, thanks to death, and its wastefulness, thanks to evil.
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Beyonce is a beautiful, elegant woman who is also a wonderful dancer. And her voice is sublime. Just like her husband, Jay-Z, Beyonce has real talent. They are both the kind of truly great artist who will be remembered by history. Their child will be lucky to have such talented parents.
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Evil is only of this world. In the other world there is neither good nor evil; all there is, is beaut).
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We need prisons because there are some hardcore criminals, but I never met a guy who has been in jail that came out with a smile on his face thinking, 'Right, that's it - now I am going to be good!'
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Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.
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When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
