Chris Evert Quotes
To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.
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I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
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'Whiplash' scared me. I feel you should only do projects that scare you to some degree. I get motivated by those sorts of feelings.
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I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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VaynerMedia filters the world how humans interact. This is how people are going to make buying decisions.
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It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.
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In a universe that's an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' – actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.
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Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.
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I am a variety machine; I look for variety in my characters, and an extra edge in the characterisation helps in bringing out a better performance.
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Excellent stuff from CPC leadership candidate @MaximeBernier There's hope for Canada!
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'Okja' I don't think would have been made if Netflix hadn't made it. That, to me, is a much bigger thing than whether someone watches it on a big screen or a phone. Because it simply wouldn't have existed otherwise.
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To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.
