John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.
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Drink lots of water and stay hydrated.
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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
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The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.
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Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent for the good for the City of Washington, and all the Federal projects where the Fine Arts Commission had jurisdiction, and it was a tremendous experience.
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The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.
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The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.
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One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
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I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.
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We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.
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You can play older than yourself. You can play younger than yourself up to a point, and then that just becomes impossible because you carry a weight with you that you can't shift, unless you have very boyish looks.
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Donatella Versace has been a renegade. Just an incredible, artistic person.
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I still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there was anything unusual about being a woman director until the early 1980s, when I looked around the professional theater and realized there weren't many of us. You have to make more of a case for yourself than any man.
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I was kind of an unhappy kid. I always felt like a cynical New Yorker trapped in a little kid's body. I started to get some pretty bad anxiety disorders around puberty, which totally did not work with growing up a mile away from the beach. I started cutting my own hair.
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Everyone knows what it's like to make the wrong decision for the right reasons. For me, wrong decisions are the heart of drama - a character who's always making the right decisions is boring.
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Develop inspirational dissatisfaction. Rearrange your attitudes and convert a failure of one day into success on another.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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If it were left to us, we would all fall away from the faith and perish.
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Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.
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The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.
