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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Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
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Where the world comes in my way - and it comes in my way everywhere - I consume it to quiet the hunger of my egoism. For me you are nothing but - my food, even as I too am fed upon and turned to use by you. We have only one relation to each other, that of usableness, of utility, of use.
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My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there.
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Sometimes I'm at home and I remember I'm supposed to do 100 push-ups and I don't.
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At a collective level, learning is an essential link in our society.
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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.
