John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
As the visit of one we love makes the whole day pleasant, so is it illumined and made fair by a brave and beautiful thought.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.
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Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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Chinese people age overnight.
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Trust is something I know has to be earned whether you're a husband, a father, or a congressman.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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As a girl who was raised on the idea that we should give back to our community as much as possible, I believe that we have more power than we think when it comes to making change.
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
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I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me.
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
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It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later 'cause the cards are a different color.
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A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.
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Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.
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Love is a weapon of Light, and it has the power to eradicate all forms of darkness. That is the key. When we offer love even to our enemies, we destroy their darkness and hatred.
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The biggest enemy we face is anthropocentrism. This is that common attitude that everything on this Earth was put here for human use.
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Wouldst have the princely spirit bowed? Whisper only, speak not loud, Mark and leave him in the crowd.Thou need'st not spies nor jailers have; The free will serve thee like the slave, Coward shrinking from the brave.
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As the visit of one we love makes the whole day pleasant, so is it illumined and made fair by a brave and beautiful thought.
