John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place; our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too.
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I think women have the right to consult their own wishes, needs, and capacities and produce only loved, wanted children they can care for - or even no children at all. I think we would all be better off as a society if we respected women's ability to make these decisions for themselves and concentrated on caring well for the born.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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The charm of Brittany is to be found in the people and in the churches. The former, with their peculiar costumes and their customs, are full of interest, and the latter are of remarkable beauty and quaintness.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about.
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If a company's stock is undervalued - as many managers believe theirs is - a repurchase may offer the best payoff of all.
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This is a perfect snapshot of the West at twilight. On the one hand, governments of developed nations microregulate every aspect of your life in the interests of 'keeping you safe.' ... On the other hand, when it comes to 'keeping you safe' from real threats, such as a millenarian theocracy that claims universal jurisdiction, America and its allies do nothing. ... It is now certain that Tehran will get its nukes, and very soon. This is the biggest abdication of responsibility by the Western powers since the 1930s.
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I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was this handle with which I could identify myself and understand why I felt so out of whack with the culture around me.
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Most days it feels as if the world is whirling around me and I am standing still. In slow motion, I watch the colors blur; people and faces all become a massive wash.
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Represent your figures in such action as may be fitted to express what purpose is in the mind of each; otherwise your art will not be admirable.
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Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place; our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things.
