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.
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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.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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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.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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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.
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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.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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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.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.
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It's obviously disappointing and surreal when you see someone else win the Stanley Cup.
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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.
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Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
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All the uncontrollable and unpredictable parts of my life - from the actual creation to my emotional responses to the finished book - I've succeeded in banishing to the office. And I think I'm happier for it.
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If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can't copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way.
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If anyone asks me whether I like being a popular writer, I ask them whether they think I'd rather be an unpopular writer.
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I think anytime you can do something you haven't seen or done in a film before, it's always a great day as an actor.
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If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.
