John McEnroe Quotes
I did a terrible job of composing myself. I was a spoiled brat from Long Island who benefitted from the energy of New York.
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I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.
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Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.
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Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
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For me, I thought I had the best job in the world.
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I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.
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The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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It is very difficult for me to speculate as to how long it will take for the LTE-TDD ecosystem to mature. Of course, the whole industry is speaking of scale and a combination of scale in order to get more efficiency in the ecosystem.
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I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.
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It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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It was the best job I ever had. I just left because my whole team was leaving and the new guys were coming.
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A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.
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I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.
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Comedy requires a lot of energy.
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I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris.
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I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life.
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Because it started as an offshoot of al Qaeda in Iraq, ISIL has long been subject to U.N. sanctions, and all countries have a legal obligation to freeze its assets and prohibit its business dealings. But countries around the world need to do more to make these sanctions work.
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It's not how many hours you put in with a client or on a project. It's the quantity and quality of your energy - your focus and force - that determine whether that time is valuable.
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Without sounding pretentious, it's nice to always be surrounded by creative people who inspire me and keep my levels of creativity charged.
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I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I just didn't know it would be called Ruby.
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Investing in [children] is not a national luxury or a national choice. It's a national necessity. If the foundation of your house is crumbling, you don't say you can't afford to fix it while you're building astronomically expensive fences to protect it from outside enemies. The issue is not are we going to pay - it's are we going to pay now, up front, or are we going to pay a whole lot more later on.
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A person's self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.
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I did a terrible job of composing myself. I was a spoiled brat from Long Island who benefitted from the energy of New York.
