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 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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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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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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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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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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People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
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I'm wondering how many elected figures any of us could find who do not, in the front or back of their minds, remember who does them favors, who doesn't.
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I'm usually cast for the more goofy and tomboyish characters.
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I'm no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt.
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Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.
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I feel happy to terrify kids.
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My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company.
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The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.
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I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.
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I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the other was a firefighter. New York is in my DNA.
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...and there I was sending all the wrong signals to the right people in the wrong ways. Again, again, again.
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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.
