John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

It is more profitable to be mindful of our own faults than of those of our age.

John Lancaster Spalding

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• Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.

  

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• Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.

  

  Vern Buchanan
  • You
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• I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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• Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.

  

  Gary Herbert
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• When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.

  

  Halsey
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• I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Good
  • Cool
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• I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Boy

• I think I can get away, sometimes, with walking in the streets and not getting noticed. I like that. I want my work to get noticed, not me. And it's slowly getting there, which is good.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Good
  • Work
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• I sometimes ask people, 'Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you're having, not the emotions that you're having, but the very presence of your very being?' You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Energy
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• Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Government
  • End
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• I like analyzing and managing large-scale transaction-processing platforms, recordkeeping administration, and brokerage trading services.

  

  Abagail Johnson
  • Like
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• We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.

  

  Young Thug
  • Money
  • Power
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• Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Light
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• Surviving is the only glory in war.

  

  Samuel Fuller
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• I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Sleep
  • Which
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• If you talk to any actor, they'll tell you that working is the best thing.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
  • Best
  • Actor
  • Talk

• The fact that Eddie Vedder likes to play 3 hour plus shows a night, I have to be ready for that.

  

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• With 'Carrie,' I did, like, seven auditions. I'd never done a movie, so they wanted to make sure I wasn't going to ruin it. I don't blame them.

  

  Ansel Elgort
  • Done
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• I kind of idolized older punk-rock and hip-hop bands, and I was, like, 15 when I started the Beastie Boys. And what business did we having doing that at that age?

  

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• Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.

  

  Colleen McCullough
  • Age
  • Phenomenon

• Age and gender, nationality and religion, what language you use - all of that isn’t important to me.

  

  Suga BTS
  • Important
  • Age
  • Religion

• It is more profitable to be mindful of our own faults than of those of our age.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Age