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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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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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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A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
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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'm deeply in love with my wife, and she's my best friend, and yet we share different viewpoints of life, which I think is one of the things that holds our marriage together. She came from Texas, and she has an optimistic view of life. I came from Detroit and have a very pessimistic view.
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No one told me about boys. I had to figure it out myself. The first thing I learned was that sometimes they grow slower than women mentally.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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I want to put out music I really believe in, and when I felt that was threatened, I lashed out at everybody.
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If we are to reach certainty and true autonomy of realization, we need to be willing to be heretics. What's more, we need to become universal heretics, not believing anything that we do not know from direct experience, beyond stories, beyond hearsay, and even beyond the mind.
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I believe there's only one autobiography you can do.
