John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
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The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.
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To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.
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I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I really just concentrated on acting.
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.
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Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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I want to have a long career.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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When I throw a curve that hangs and it goes for a hit, I want to chew up my glove.
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Bad luck relies on absolutely perfect timing.
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We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream.
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That's what writing is: it's imagining that you can make a world. That's what basketball is, too: it's imagining the game as a world.
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There were a couple Aborigines in my primary school, but we never spoke to them. They kept to themselves, and we never really even locked eyes. They weren't acknowledged officially either.
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Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world.
