Pete Sampras Quotes
When you retire you want to get as far away as possible from the game for a couple of years.
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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
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By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.
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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
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Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
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Every sport has its own cast of characters.
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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I need to be very isolated to write, and unfortunately isolation is often quite difficult to find. My ideal writing environment would be a country house hotel in the middle of nowhere, with full room service.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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I sleep a lot on Sunday. It's really great.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
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Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life.
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Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to happen, the reader is quite as vital as the author.
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My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.
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The system should not have failed in this way, it should have held together. And there's either design problems or as we are saying, voltage support weaknesses in this system that have to be addressed.
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My training as a journalist was invaluable: when I worked on 'The Daily Express,' the editor would often ask for 1000 words within a couple of hours. I could not say I was not inspired. I had to get on with it.
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I'll say it again: you've got to put the argument back in the game. They're trying to make baseball mechanized, a machine. They're ruining baseball.
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When you retire you want to get as far away as possible from the game for a couple of years.
