John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
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I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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Education never really interested me, to be fair. I mean, education does interest me, but academic school study is a different thing. I can't quite grasp that.
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If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
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I have never done a thriller, and it will just be really fun for me to heave and pant and run and climb and break windows and scream every once in a while.
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That was my dream, to compete against the best surfers in the best waves. But as a kid, it all seemed so unattainable. It was this big dream, but deep down I never thought it could really happen. But my parents always believed I could do it, and they helped me get through all the stages and take all the right steps.
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We should get used to the idea that we'll probably never be able to find - and confirm - a good explanation of the ultimate origin of the universe, though I see no reason to believe that we can't press much further on this question than we have managed to date.
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I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
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My denial and irresponsible attitude about asthma put me at great risk and caused me so much needless suffering. My hope is that the kids I talk to learn to open up about their asthma, become educated about their condition, and seek help.
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I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just thought children might like my sort of visual humour.
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I charged into something which might have been a tree, but was not-being, in point of fact, Jeeves.
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It's that experienced eye that knows what the public loves and how to create that Hollywood magic that drives pop culture.
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Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ass is incapable of understanding musical harmony.
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I look back on the last 10 years and I have to say I'm proud of what I have accomplished, because I've been able to raise two beautiful children.
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It was and has been one of the major interventions in public health, and it's absolutely vital that people vaccinate their children.
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We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.
