John McEnroe Quotes
You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part.
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I do this acting thing mostly for myself. I like to make a connection and communicate with the audience to make myself feel less lonely. I also do it to develop my own character, so sometimes I do it to just be away in a certain area that I've never been to. But mostly, the story has to do something for me.
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I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
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The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.
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That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
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I went to a girls' school, and it was awful. The combination of my teenage anger and their jealousy meant I was always getting into fights. There was a lot of pulling of hair and scratching of faces and rolling around on the floor.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
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I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.
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You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right.
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I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the anthem played, thinking about how every single second of training I've done was for this minute and how many people played a role in my achievement.
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It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award.
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We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
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I knew, always, what I wanted to be. Even before I had my first computer, I wanted to be a computer scientist.
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Throughout U.S. history, competent public investments have been an essential complement to private investments - from the Louisiana Purchase, to land-grant colleges, to the Interstate Highway System, to the Internet.
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Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.
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We have to make a determination of what the minimum standards are for police, fire and emergency services in all of America's major cities. Once we determine that, then we can decide what the funding is.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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Usus communis aquarum est.Nec solem proprium natura nec aera fecitnec tenues undas
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Avoid fancy words....If you admire fancy words, if every sky is beauteous, every blonde curvaceous, every intelligent child prodigious, if you are tickled by discombobulate, you will have bad time Reminder 14.
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You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part.
