John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
A great man, who lives intimately with his admirers, with difficulty escapes being made ridiculous.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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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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I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.
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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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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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It really stresses me out to think about what other people think about me.
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The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
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Hi and Merry Christmas. I’m honored to have a chance to speak with you and your family this year. Recently we learned that our governments, working in concert, have created a system of worldwide system of mass surveillance watching everything we do. Great Britain’s George Orwell warned us of the danger of this kind of information.
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Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
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A great man, who lives intimately with his admirers, with difficulty escapes being made ridiculous.
