John McEnroe Quotes
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My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.
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I'm a total people pleaser.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.
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Women are what completely inspire me, and they have also been my downfall.
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I believe in the paramount importance of entertainment, but I have something to say.
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My first and only experience in baseball, the coach signed me up; he didn't tell me there's a thing called the curveball. I didn't know that. So the ball's coming at me and I start backing out, and then it broke inside. And the umpire says, 'Strike one!' And I'm saying, 'How is that a strike? It almost hit me!'
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When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.
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I'm a proud filmmaker, but everyone seems to have forgotten that. You're introduced, and someone will say, 'Arrey! Karan Johar! He does talk shows! He's judge!' And now my filmmaking has been lost, all my other accomplishments forgotten.
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence.
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A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.
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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
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Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.
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The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best that is in us. It is only through our own personal awakening that the world can be awakened. We cannot give what we do not have.
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For me writing is that place where I can escape; it's where I let my thoughts run wild.
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I don't want retired schoolteachers or any other good Americans to be duped by fraudulent organizations into giving money, thinking it is going to go to disabled vets, when in fact it's not at all. It's going in to pad the pockets of some scam artists. I want to stop this stuff.
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I hated teaching composition. I was playing music I didn't particularly want to play, being on committees I didn't want to be on.
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I happened to be one of those guys who doesn't play much golf.
