A. G. Spalding Quotes

The genius of our institutions is democratic - Base Ball is a democratic game.

A. G. Spalding

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• I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.

  

  Randall Park
  • Kind
  • Stupid
  • Offensive

• On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Law
  • Change
  • Tried

• Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Feel
  • White
  • Just Because

• Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • People
  • More
  • Questioning

• Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • School
  • Know
  • Fashion

• I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • Think
  • You
  • Better

• My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Great
  • Mother

• Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Art
  • Theatre
  • First

• I've always been happy with my body.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Happy
  • Always
  • Body

• I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Know
  • Group
  • Mexico

• John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Girl

• There's a huge part of me that's thinking about perfection. I have to fight that urge, to try to live in the moment, reach for something that I might be hearing, and not second-guess myself.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Myself

• Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.

  

  B. B. King
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Family

• To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Man
  • First
  • Principles

• I have made a promise to myself that I will have no limitations as an actor. I have realised I have to pay attention to the commercials or the business aspect of cinema, but deep inside, I am purely an artiste.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Business
  • Attention
  • Myself

• I really felt it was time for a new vision.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Time
  • Vision
  • New

• America, I know the road will be long, but I know we can get there. Yes, we will stumble, but I know we’ll get back up. That’s how a movement happens. That’s how history bends. That's how when somebody is faint of heart, somebody else brings them along and says, come on, we’re marching.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Long
  • Heart

• That conclusion is inescapable, given the well-established evidence that voter-ID laws don't disenfranchise minorities or reduce minority voting, and in many instances enhance it, despite claims to the contrary by Mr. Holder and his allies. As more states adopt such laws, the left has railed against them with increasing fury, even invoking the specter of the Jim Crow era to describe electoral safeguards common to most nations, including in the Third World.

  

  Edwin Meese
  • World
  • Evidence
  • Minorities

• Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage!

  

  Jerry Hall

• I really wait for the job to come. Whatever job comes up, I just want to keep working. The jobs don't always come, so you take whatever is available and hope it's a good one.

  

  Debra Monk
  • Up
  • Good
  • Job

• Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing.

  

  Jennifer Gilmore
  • Writing

• The genius of our institutions is democratic - Base Ball is a democratic game.

  

  A. G. Spalding
  • Game
  • Baseball
  • Democratic