John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

When we have attained success, we see how inferior it is to the hope, yearning and enthusiasm with which we started forth in life’s morning.

John Lancaster Spalding

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• Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.

  

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• Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.

  

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• Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.

  

  Adam McKay
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• I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.

  

  Calvin Klein
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• The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.

  

  C. L. R. James
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• Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
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• Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.

  

  Adam Cohen
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  • Life
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• No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.

  

  Barton Gellman
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  • Himself

• When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Family
  • Growing
  • Value

• We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • May
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• Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

  

  Yogi Berra
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• 'YouKu' means what's best and what's cool in Chinese. So, the whole product philosophy really revolves around how to help users, from a massive video database, finds what's best and what's cool.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Help
  • Best
  • Cool

• No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Heart
  • Business
  • Hope

• 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.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Think
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• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
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• We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.

  

  Ralph Bunche
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  • Country
  • Better

• 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.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
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• If Republicans want to bring these things up for a vote, I'm letting them know where I stand.

  

  Brad Carson
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• To the Gods we ne'er can renderPraise for every good they grant;Let us, with devotion tender,Minister to grief and want.Quenched be hate and wrath forever,Pardoned be our mortal foe- May our tears upbraid him never,No repentance bring him low!

  

  Friedrich Schiller
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• I could not do this, I realized, if I were immortal. This degree of love of life and of one another is granted, I saw for once and for ever, not to immortals, but to those who live briefly and always under the shadow of death and loss.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Life
  • Live
  • Death

• I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: they respond, they're getting the jokes, they're with me. And that' s been happening.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Idea
  • Audience
  • Alive

• Being in this business and surviving day-to-day can be a constant struggle. It's about learning how to be your own super hero, put on your own cape, and be a well-rounded individual.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Business
  • Learning
  • Struggle

• When we have attained success, we see how inferior it is to the hope, yearning and enthusiasm with which we started forth in life’s morning.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Success