John McEnroe Quotes
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.
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I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
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Of course my parents are picky about the girls I date; my parents watch out for me.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I had great stats in my career, you know, but really, you want to win.
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By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
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I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.
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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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I can not stay at the place when a stranger starts talking to me. I will try to cut the speech as quick as possible and move away. I had to break this inhibition before becoming an actor.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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There were uncles in my life that definitely knew the street life.
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Panda - We're not really selling Chinese food, you know. Our real purpose is about developing people.
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To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go into obscurity and darkness together.
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I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.
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I believe there's only one autobiography you can do.
