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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Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.
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To our enemies all over the world who plan America's demise, please take my advice. Give up now. No matter what, you will lose. You will lose it all.
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I've had so many interviews where the last question is, Are you gay? I had to find very creative ways to say that I was gay, but that I wasn't going to talk about it.
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I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.
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How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert did - sly dog!
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I believe there's only one autobiography you can do.
