Pete Sampras Quotes
After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last U.S. Open, I spent the next six months trying to figure out what was next. Slowly my passion for the sport just vanished. I had nothing left to prove.Pete Sampras
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
Naval Ravikant -
I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
K. Flay -
Of course, we all watch James Bond with envy - knowing the U.S. government would never pay for the lifestyle he enjoys.
Valerie Plame -
I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
Patrick Fischler -
The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
Walter Cronkite -
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
Sam Levenson
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
Hans Haacke -
The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
Vernor Vinge -
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
Warren Bennis -
I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
Floyd Abrams -
Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
Ferdinand Marcos -
It's true that I'm not ashamed of my body. I'm comfortable, and I think more women should be more confident.
Dakota Johnson
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I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
Rand Paul -
Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.
Jaan Tallinn -
I'm not super into sports.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
I write novels and other things.
Jack L. Chalker -
We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.
Barack Obama -
I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
Samuel Dash
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
Malcolm X -
There's no set-in-stone way to be a vampire, especially with the evil ones.
Cameron Bright -
Taiwan gives a lot of foreign aid to Costa Rica, so it looks like they are basically buying the right to fish, even though it's not legal.
Paul Watson -
I can't think of anything right now that could be more damaging for our economy than passing and putting into effect and implementing Obamacare.
John Fleming -
After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last U.S. Open, I spent the next six months trying to figure out what was next. Slowly my passion for the sport just vanished. I had nothing left to prove.
Pete Sampras