John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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The public debate about evolution itself, as opposed to whether to teach it, is something else. It is boring, demeaning, and insufferably dull.
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I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.
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I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.
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Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.
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CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
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There is no such thing as a weekend for me when I'm at home on my ranch in Oregon.
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
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I'm very lucky. I had a great childhood.
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I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court. Being alone in the dark is something I don't like.
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You know that neither numbers nor strength give the victory, but that side which, with the assistance of the gods, attacks with the greatest resolution is generally irresistible.
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I'd love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it's not fair to create an expectation level before I know what is realistic. I want to finish as well as possible. Is that top 20? Top 15? Top 25? You just have to play it by ear.
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That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.
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People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'
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You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
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They're claiming that the grunge bands finally put Seattle on the map, but, like, what map? ...I mean, we had Jimi Hendrix. Heck, what more do we want?
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You hear about these shows where there are all these women are supposedly always in a catfight, and then you find out in reality that they're all getting along fine.
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Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there's music in the air there.
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The happiness of the ignorant is but an animal’s paradise.
