John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
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'Sairat' is a film I absolutely loved. I have great regard for the movie and its film-maker. The movie blew my mind.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.
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'Entourage' was a show that existed around wish-fulfillment. People watched it because they wanted to believe they could go on private jets and be hanging out in Hollywood, but as a show, comedically, it was not funny. Not a funny show. It's funny, ironically, because of how terrible it is.
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I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career.
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Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.
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You can sustain visual beauty and innovative visual ideas for a certain length of time, but in a two-hour experience, which is really what movies are, usually audiences - whether they know it or not - most want an emotional connection to character.
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As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.
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I have a rich, full, textured life.
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So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
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The American people have elected their president and my vote doesn't count in the U.S.
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Mr Mugabe now has a choice: either he calls of the thugs, allows the media to operate freely, and lets the population of Zimbabwe make a democratic choice, or he and his key ministers will pay the price.
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Sometimes, you do things and you do them not because you're thinking but because you're feeling. Because you're feeling too much. And you can't always control the things you do when you're feeling too much. Maybe the difference between being a boy and being a man is that boys couldn't control the awful things they sometimes felt. And men could.
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I used to write travel essays, and I was struck by how the fact of writing about a place would change my relationship with it. I would make completely different choices, do things I wouldn't have normally, because I had to fill this narrative shape.
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Nicky Egan has the finesse of Bonnie Raitt merged with the primal force of Janis Joplin. It is a rare combination. Her passion is a joy to behold - and her talent is undeniable. She belongs in any conversation about great contemporary female soul singers. If you're up for a revelatory evening, then put her high on your list.
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What we acquire with joy, we possess with indifference.
