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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He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
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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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I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect.
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It's silly when girls sell their souls because it's in.
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Riot is the voice of the unheard.
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Everyone wanted to be rich and beautiful, but the truly rich and beautiful had to pretend they were just the same as everyone else.
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'There, Master Niketas,' Baudolino said, 'when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. ... There is nothing better than imagining other worlds,' he said, 'to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn't yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one.'
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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.
