John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
Mercenary is whoever thinks less of his work than of the money he receives for doing it; and social conditions which impose tasks that make this inevitable are barbarous.
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Funny is an attitude.
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I would like to see America some day.
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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There is no evidence to show that prohibition has ever had its intended impact. Of course, just as banning beef has reduced beef consumption, banning alcohol will lead to reduced alcohol consumption. But, there appears to be little or no correlation between, say, domestic violence or household impoverishment and prohibition.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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I knew very early on that I wasn't Brad Pitt.
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I have been in dialogue with my family about what can actually be done. We've come up with this philosophy that in a truly multicultural society, the only way to have liberty and justice for everybody is to have multiple parties. And by multiple parties, I mean 50 parties, not one or two.
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It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
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I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don't really feel like I have a choice in, to make music. I've got to make it.
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were.
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Don't try to convince your partner you are right. Instead of trying to win arguments, try to have a winning relationship!
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
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It's not like my old self – I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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I'm an everyday guy - I'm a try-to-write-at-least-15-minutes-every-day-if-not-an-hour-or-two kind of guy. I write in Google docs so that wherever you go, you have access to it.
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I don't avoid trends. You do definitely want to be on-trend, but I do like to pick and choose the things that I'm seeing. And not every trend will work on every client of mine.
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Mercenary is whoever thinks less of his work than of the money he receives for doing it; and social conditions which impose tasks that make this inevitable are barbarous.
