Jimmy Connors Quotes
I was raised by two women, and that laid the groundwork for the way I treat 'em: with the utmost respect and admiration.
Quotes to Explore
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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The diverse sound of my music makes it a good fit for that demographic.
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I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.
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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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Personally, I don't trust people who go out of their way to state they never read or watch horror and insist there's something wrong with those of us who do.
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Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.
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The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.
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I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.
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We should involve the whole world in the handling of this refugee crisis.
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Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.
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I'm going to do some consulting for nonprofits and arts agencies. These are areas I'm interested in that didn't come directly out of Harvard, but certainly I started looking at things in a different manner.
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Most of the sicknesses we suffer from are from the things we eat.
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When the time comes to start building deep space transports and refueling rocket tankers, it will be the commercial industry that steps up, not another government-owned, government-managed enterprise.
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Love must be learned, and learned again; there is no end to it.
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In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
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Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death.
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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I was raised by two women, and that laid the groundwork for the way I treat 'em: with the utmost respect and admiration.
