Jimmy Connors Quotes
For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
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I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.
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My first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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People used to say I'm weak in comedy. But, with 'Mahesh Khaelja' and 'Dookudu,' I have proved that I am good at comedy.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
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I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.
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Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
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Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
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The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful.
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
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The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.
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It's fun to have money, but the more money I get, the less interesting it becomes. If you don't have very much, you have to think about it. If you are starving, you become interested in food. If you are struggling to pay the bills, money becomes tragically important.
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For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family.
