John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.
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I like the fact that Austin's the first place I've ever lived where there's a real sense of community. People care about their neighbors.
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To me, the funnest part of wrestling is evolving. If you stay the same all the time, you're eventually going to be left behind.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.'
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Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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I shall always be a priest of love.
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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.
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I never lie to my fans.
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The thing that makes us root for Spider-Man as he swings across the city is that he's either having the time of his life or worrying about whether he'll be able to get a good grade on that English paper or whether or not he's going to make it home in time for Aunt May to make his dinner.
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There are many films in which minority groups are caricatured to the point where truth is all together lost. There are many more films, good in general, but untrue in their presentation of the Negro's life as totally divorced from the Caucasian's or the Caucasian's from the Negro.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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For me, everything is cool.
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I'm fortunate in having journalism as a sideline to pay the bills, and I essentially do it in order to take as long as I want with books.
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It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.
