John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own?
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
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The biggest segment of our audience is 18 to 34, and, believe it or not, they still speak Spanish, and they still watch novellas and soccer games and news.
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Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.
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I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.
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Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.
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With the Internet and social media being a huge part of today's culture, I think it's super important to promote staying smart online.
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Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.
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I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition. So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
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Happy people have neither age nor memory, they have no need of the past.
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I love being irreverent. But I hate being irrelevant. I love being irreverent because at the end of the day your actions belie your intentions.
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The ideal of helping is to make others independent of you. You help them to become more independent rather than making them addicted to you.
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The belief that God will do everything for man is as untenable as the belief that man can do everything for himself. It, too, is based on a lack of faith. We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.
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Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine.
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If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own?
