John McEnroe Quotes

Roland Garros is the only one of the four majors that is 15 days, and that is too long.

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• I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.

  

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• I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
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• I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.

  

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• The hair department on 'Game of Thrones' is incredible.

  

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• I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
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• 'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.

  

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• Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
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• One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge.

  

  Barbara Park
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• I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.

  

  Eddie Izzard
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• It's hard to win in the NFL. You have to maintain a very delicate balance putting together the right team to be able to win and have any amount of success.

  

  Barry Sanders
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• I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.

  

  R. Kelly
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• I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.

  

  Maisie Williams
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• I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

  

  Victor Hugo
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• I believe in my music.

  

  Ralph Stanley
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• The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.

  

  Irina Shayk
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• If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

  

  Katharine Butler Hathaway
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• Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

  

  Warren Bennis
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• More and more, people probably associate me in this world of comedy and these confident, brassy, big ladies, which I love, but my insides and who I feel like internally and the kind of work that I hope to continue doing feels very different from that.

  

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• The worker's effectiveness is determined largely by the way he is being managed.

  

  Peter Drucker

• The part of capitalism that doesn't work for me is when capitalists make decisions in the way that Adam Smith suggested, which is that as long as you do everything in the interest of the investor, you're going to actually make the best decisions for all other stakeholders. I don't happen to agree with that.

  

  Danny Meyer
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• I am a shadow’s shade, a lunatic, perhaps. Of two dark moons.

  

  Marina Tsvetaeva
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• Roland Garros is the only one of the four majors that is 15 days, and that is too long.

  

  John McEnroe
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