John McEnroe Quotes

I can tell you from experience that when you get that pent-up and crazed, it can be distracting.

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• Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Peace
  • Problems
  • Process

• When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Doing
  • Harmony

• I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Work
  • Everything
  • Just

• The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Fun
  • You

• You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.

  

  Inga Cadranel
  • Car
  • Sports
  • Driving

• Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Family
  • Culture
  • Movies

• Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Good
  • Single
  • Day

• I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Way
  • Relationship
  • Too Much

• The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.

  

  Valerie June
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of 'People' magazine.

  

  A. E. Hotchner
  • People
  • Smile
  • Stars

• Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Song
  • Place

• I was lucky that I got to do films in between seasons of 'Chuck.'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Lucky
  • Got
  • Seasons

• I think chicken and horse meat are ideal food because it's very easy to digest.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • Food
  • Horse
  • Meat

• Josie needed more of a personality than what the cartoon had to offer.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Personality
  • More
  • Cartoon

• I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country.

  

  Larry Craig
  • Country
  • Calm
  • Fundamental

• I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • World
  • Strong
  • Humility

• Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Country
  • American
  • Society

• When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • You
  • Information
  • Unknown

• I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.

  

  Conrad Hall

• My version of a stress dream is, really, showing up on a concert stage with a drum set and not knowing the chart.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Stress

• What keeps me up at night? Waking up to a scoop at another newspaper or on TV. I'm probably competitive, almost too much so. I will stay up till the Web sites at night roll over. And if they don't roll over, I'll stay up until it's done. I'll wake up at the crack of dawn, or in the middle of the night even, just to go and check and see.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • Up
  • Done
  • Night

• I love New York for being New York. I love L.A. for being L.A. But when it comes home, I'm a Midwest, South type of dude. I like open roads, I like to drive, and it may not be as fast, but it's definitely a place where you get to appreciate a lot more. Not saying that you don't up here, but that's not what I'm accustomed to.

  

  Nelly
  • Up
  • May
  • Home

• What happens to children and families today who sit around the television? They're watching made-up stories. It's not their experience and it's not truly shared. A human being must learn at a very young age how to connect to other human beings. Our technologies are driving us apart, only connecting us in terms of information, not in terms of emotions.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
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  • Children
  • Experience

• I can tell you from experience that when you get that pent-up and crazed, it can be distracting.

  

  John McEnroe
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