John McEnroe Quotes
Maybe I should have played two more Australians and two less Davis Cups? I could have had more majors and still have three Davis Cups when most people don't have one.
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.
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I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
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Most Israelis have a sense, 'We just don't want to live in the Middle East anymore. We don't want it to be the Middle East. Were going to just build a wall or operate unilaterally' - not try to even use force as used to be the case to convince Arabs to accept Israel by convincing them that Israel is here to stay and then negotiating.
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Why did you destroy Manny's office, then?" "I--can't breathe--" "That is the point of choking you," I pointed out. "Haste, please, if you want to live." -Cassiel
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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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My opinions of which of my works are good are vastly different than other people's. There is one that I'm obsessed with but I swear... no one else has ever even commented on it. So I'm a bit shy to draw attention to it.
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I love any book that makes my family seem almost normal.
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Everyone has these ideas, especially about the middle of the country, about people being backwards and three-toothed.
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Maybe I should have played two more Australians and two less Davis Cups? I could have had more majors and still have three Davis Cups when most people don't have one.
