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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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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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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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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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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I don't believe in miracles.
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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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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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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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I realize you are going to make mistakes through life. Just don't make any bad ones, you know. Like all of my records are perfect records, but I did make mistakes on them.
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I can't change you and you can't change me, but together we can work to change the world.
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I got shot. I always felt like I'd be shot. Somebody was trying to do me some harm because a lot of people don't like me. But I didn't think it was gonna happen at that particular moment.
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If nobody can sell mortgage-backed securities based on trillions of dollars of unpayable instruments, there's a lot less risk in the overall system.
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I imagine our first glimpse of Heaven will cause us to gasp in amazement and delight. That first gasp will likely be followed by many more as we continually encounter new sights in that endlessly wonderful place.
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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.
