John McEnroe Quotes

If people do things without thinking them through, that rubs me up the wrong way.

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• After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Living

• I had to work with a psychiatrist.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Work
  • Had
  • Psychiatrist

• Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Life
  • Long
  • Hair

• My son's a West Point cadet.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Son
  • Point
  • West

• I learned that instead of relying on and imitating American music, there is a better chance for an Asian artist to succeed if he or she follows his or her own culture.

  

  Rain
  • Music
  • She
  • American

• When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Kind
  • Ever
  • Belt

• What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Start

• I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • House
  • Leader

• I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Different
  • Death
  • Thought

• I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Universe
  • Speak
  • Achieve

• See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • See
  • Surprise
  • Awards

• My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.

  

  Irving Layton
  • Want
  • Loved
  • Neighbor

• Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Time
  • God
  • Free

• Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Job
  • American
  • Growing

• The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • People
  • Business
  • Secrets

• By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Men
  • Women
  • War

• I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Artist

• Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.

  

  Mary Oliver
  • Work

• But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • People
  • Life
  • Rest

• Gadgets are usually the last thing I think about, and if there's something new, I'll get to the store for the final shipment of the first generation when it's on sale. So I have last year's stuff.

  

  William Gibson
  • Thinking
  • Firsts
  • Finals

• I think all human beings are at least a little bit Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde, and many of us are downright quadrophenic.

  

  Dave Smalley
  • Thinking
  • Human
  • Little

• If you haven't had a few dents in your resume, you haven't tried.

  

  Andrew Forrest

• If people do things without thinking them through, that rubs me up the wrong way.

  

  John McEnroe
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