John McEnroe Quotes
If they think I'm better at commentating than I was as a player, then I must be pretty darned good at commentating.
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I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.
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I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
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I don't like talking to celebrities.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
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I have been the victim of heartless malice.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.
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I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.
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How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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It's very intense to go back to the past and revive work that I've already experienced and moved forward from. It's like seeing an old girlfriend - awkward at times, nostalgic at times and downright maddening and embarrassing.
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UF is Utilization Flight. That got put in the manifest quite some time ago.
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My part had three lines. I said, 'You look wonderful, sir,' three times. All my friends said, 'Do not take that role - and do not understudy. You'll regret it the rest of your life.' I did both of those things, and I've never regretted it once.
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The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.
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Going gray is like ejaculating: you know it can happen prematurely, but when it does it comes as a total shock.
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If they think I'm better at commentating than I was as a player, then I must be pretty darned good at commentating.
