John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden; for simply to know by rote is not to know at all.
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
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Young audience, in the age group of 16-33 years, constitutes the main viewership of Bollywood films.
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Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.
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My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my everyday life.
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Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.
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You don't train a dog in a training hall, jerking his neck or even giving him food treats. You train him using life rewards.
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I got a psychology degree from USC, but music is just my whole life.
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I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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I never starved myself.
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The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.
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Once its considered proper to use government force to solve one person’s problem, force can be justified to solve anyone’s problem.
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When some were saying that if Cæsar should march against the city they could not see what forces there were to resist him, Pompey replied with a smile, bidding them be in no concern, 'for whenever I stamp my foot in any part of Italy there will rise up forces enough in an instant, both horse and foot.'
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People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.
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It wasn't that she was different from all the other girls at Jackson. That was obvious. It was that she made me realize how much I was just like the rest of them, even if I wanted to pretend I wasn't.
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The best thing about Las Vegas is that no one pretends to be responsible for your behavior like they do in the rest of the country. There's no meddling self-righteous liberals or right-wing Christian demagogues telling you that you can't do something fun with your own time and money. If you can afford it, it's yours.
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To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden; for simply to know by rote is not to know at all.
