John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.John Lancaster Spalding
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
Garth Brooks -
Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
Owen Arthur -
Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
Harry Browne -
If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
Tamsin Greig -
There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.
Dana Perino -
When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
Maajid Nawaz -
Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
Barton Gellman -
You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.
Gail Sheehy -
Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The CW is a very fashion-oriented network and they like their stars to look a certain way. I like that, but at the same time, I need Nikita to be toned down a bit. You can't draw too much attention to Nikita because she's an assassin.
Maggie Q -
It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
Zadie Smith
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Barbra Streisand, for one, is one of my idols. I've listened to her since I was a little kid - the first album I ever bought was 'A Star is Born' with Kris Kristofferson.
Idina Menzel -
Look at Gwyneth Paltrow and my favourite, Kate Winslet. No one ever says, 'Oh, she's making a comeback.' To my mind, I just went on maternity leave and reported back to work.
Karisma Kapoor -
I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.
Karen Traviss -
It's obviously disappointing and surreal when you see someone else win the Stanley Cup.
Patrick Kane -
I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation, if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing as well as she is at the age of 31.
Samantha Stosur -
Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
Taslima Nasrin
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Crying that it's an application bug is like crying over the speed of light: you should deal with reality, not what you wish reality was.
Linus Torvalds -
With 'The Flash' in existence, there's no real compelling reason for us to do superpowers on 'Arrow.'
Marc Guggenheim -
I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.
Peter Mayle -
A.J. Styles is great - he's a great performer - so I'm not going to take anything away from him.
Bobby Lashley -
If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.
John Lancaster Spalding