Pete Sampras Quotes
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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
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Turning 18 is a big deal.
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I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'
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I met my agent through a casting director here in Wilmington after I auditioned for a Disney movie.
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Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
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To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.
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As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?
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I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.
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It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.
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I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
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I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.
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If you can't move the audience, they don't want you.
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For me, it's all about the Canadian tuxedo, and maybe a bolero. The province I grew up in in Alberta is pretty much the denim capital of Canada. The first premier of Alberta started Grand Western Garment, which Levi's bought later on.
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'Orange Is the New Black' and 'Sense8' have enjoyed great success all over the world.
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My goal would be to make Frank Capra-type films about real people, how they define their reality.
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They asked if I was interested in a role as a large alien in a movie.
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You can only dance for so long, but you can act until you're dead, so... I fell in love with it and I want to keep doing it and pushing myself.
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You can't call me a Twitter phenomenon or a YouTube one. These things are useful, but so's hard gigging. One year I did 311 shows. I did six in one night alone.
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When you think of Peyton Manning, you think 'ambassador.' The game has grown exponentially during his career because of him and what he means to our game, not only as a football player but as a humanitarian.
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I like to live righteous. And I just want everyone to know I'm not trying to get out of anything.
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You kind of live and die by the serve.
