John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casualitysic, color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.
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There is a lot more to me than just being a crazy fighter.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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I found it more challenging to act in a small scene, especially if it has no dialogue and if it is a close-up with only expressions.
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You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
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Probably the geekiest attribute that I have of them all is that I've always had a hard time meeting friends. Like no matter where I grew up and I moved around, I always had a hard time.
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Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
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I just went into this business for laughs. I guess I don't mind being an actor so much now.
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History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give him a context for present events, he is at the mercy of every social misdiagnosis handed to him.
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It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman's success.
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'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time.
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I've often felt I've been born out of my time, and when I started Fairground Attraction in the 1980s, I wanted to be a 1940s jazz singer.
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The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casualitysic, color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.
