John McEnroe Quotes
When I was eight and a half, my parents moved to a part of Queens where there was a club nearby. We joined, and if you believe in someone up above, I think I was meant to play tennis.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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I wanted to be ballerina, be in a band, then in drama.
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You can't, no matter what anyone says, build a movie around someone.
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
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If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.
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I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
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I love writing. I really look up to Lena Dunham, who writes and directs her show. That's something I might want to do when I'm older.
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It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
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The great disadvantage of getting older is to be obliged to relive the salient economic events of one's youth, with nothing learned and nothing forgotten.
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Boston will always be home to me.
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We should all believe in something, and I believe it's time for another shot of tequila.
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When I was eight and a half, my parents moved to a part of Queens where there was a club nearby. We joined, and if you believe in someone up above, I think I was meant to play tennis.
