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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My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular.
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Never say never. The things that you don't plan are the best. I'm a very spontaneous person.
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Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that.
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My son took many years to learn the simple truth. You cannot love any one person adequately until you have made friends with the rest of the human race also. Adult love demands qualities which cannot be learned living in a vacuum of resentment.
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Mark Udall votes with President Obama 99 percent of the time.
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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.
