John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

It is the tendency of the study of science to make us patient, humble and attentive to the smallest things. Is not this part of religion?

John Lancaster Spalding

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• If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.

  

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• I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.

  

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• The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.

  

  Rachel Gibson
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• The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.

  

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• Everything begins with an idea.

  

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• There is no substitute for jamming and getting to know each other on the road.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
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• I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'

  

  J. Cole
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• I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

  

  Walter Salles
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• If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.

  

  Larry Brilliant
  • You
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  • Fire

• I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • God
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• The production value of YouTube videos is not there.

  

  Dana Brunetti
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• 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

• I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experience that inspires every American to rededicate themselves to the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream.

  

  Yvette Clarke
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• If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and that is what a watch is, figuring out how all the gears and everything else works together. I'm patient and good at focusing on a single task.

  

  Karin Slaughter
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• I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.

  

  Yael Stone
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• I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
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• The big difference between the radio show and the TV work is that I don't have to work by committee on the radio show. I'm the DJ; I can play what I want and suffer or get praised by that. With a TV show, it's much more of a collaboration, and the song that I might think is perfect may get shot down and vice versa.

  

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• Now, the reason that we think computer science is about computers is pretty much the same reason that the Egyptians thought geometry was about surveying instruments. And that is, when some field is just getting started and you don't really understand it very well, it's very easy to confuse the essence of what you're doing with the tools that you use.

  

  Hal Abelson
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• Every new discovery in science brings with it a host of new problems, just as the invention of the automobile brought with it gas stations, roads, garages, mechanics, and a thousand other subsidiary details.

  

  Banesh Hoffmann
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• There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that , as a rule, a poet should read them.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Thinking
  • Poetry
  • Study

• What isn't said is as important as what is said.

  Colson Whitehead
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• Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Joy
  • Pleasure
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• It is the tendency of the study of science to make us patient, humble and attentive to the smallest things. Is not this part of religion?

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Science
  • Study
  • Humble