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.
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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.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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Of course, we all watch James Bond with envy - knowing the U.S. government would never pay for the lifestyle he enjoys.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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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.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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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.
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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.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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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.
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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.
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I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.
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It's true that I'm not ashamed of my body. I'm comfortable, and I think more women should be more confident.
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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.
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Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.
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I'm not super into sports.
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Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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If you like soggy cereal, then we not friends.
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I'm a Rihanna, Beyoncé kind of person.
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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How far can you push a rope? Not very far. That's why true influencers don't push.
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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.
