John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
A great man, who lives intimately with his admirers, with difficulty escapes being made ridiculous.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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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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I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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I am surrounded by great people.
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We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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My journalistic mission was straightforward: to await the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Nobody knew quite when this would be. But the diplomacy - the meetings in the U.N. security council, the allegations about weapons of mass destruction, the martial language of Tony Blair and George W. Bush - all suggested a war was brewing.
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As I get older, I 've shied away from a lot of convention. I've just been making my records.
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I don't think that any economist disputes that we're in the worst economic crisis since the great depression. The good news is that we're getting a consensus around what needs to be done.
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A great man, who lives intimately with his admirers, with difficulty escapes being made ridiculous.
