John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
Quotes to Explore
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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
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As a poet, I would always hear emcees come up to me and say, 'Yo, you should rap,' and I was like, 'No.' You know, the label was tough for me. I'm a poet. I was proud of that distinction between the two, not wanting to be the other.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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Coming from a small town, I didn't have big dreams. My biggest ambition was to find a job for myself.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.
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Chinese economic development has cost many American workers their jobs. That's the price of progress.
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'Entourage' was a show that existed around wish-fulfillment. People watched it because they wanted to believe they could go on private jets and be hanging out in Hollywood, but as a show, comedically, it was not funny. Not a funny show. It's funny, ironically, because of how terrible it is.
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People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
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Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?
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I always have to have a six pack or twelve pack of Entenmann's doughnuts in my house, no other brand.
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Games have no other purpose than to please.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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I cannot be a placard waver for every campaign; that's why I have mostly kept quiet about gay marriage.
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Why does God endow us with compassion?
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If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
