John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
Folly will run its course and it is the part of wisdom not to take it too seriously.
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I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
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The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.
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Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.
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It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.
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My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.
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I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it's always been something we have in common.
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I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.
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We only work four days a week, we only work three weeks out of the month, and we get four months off for the summer. So there's plenty of time for me to spend with the kids.
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You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.
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Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of its roots, nothing distracts it from its profound homeland and the look that it casts upon the outer world is gently dismayed.
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The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you.
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I hate to hear 'Less is more.' It's a crock of crap.
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Education should ennoble the students, but instead it is debasing them. Instead of shaping the young into diamonds, it is turning them into coals. It is not bringing transformation in them, It is not bestowing wisdom.
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If your mind is happy then you are happy anywhere you go. When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look. Truth is all there is. It's like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go.
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Folly will run its course and it is the part of wisdom not to take it too seriously.
