Ivo Andric Quotes
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.
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I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon. I also wanted to be a heart surgeon. That was motivated by the fact that my young aunt, a sister of my dad, died in her early 20s of a correctable heart disease.
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I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.
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I've got no interest in football. My brother's a footballer, too, and I was dragged to the freezing pitch every week as a child. I don't see much glamour in it.
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I'm funny at home too, but not deliberately. My wife is usually laughing at me rather than with me.
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Church attendance rates among white Americans without a college education have dropped pretty significantly. People with college degrees are more likely to go to church than people without college degrees among the white working class.
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Lots of people speak Afrikaans. It's not a statement; it's just a language that we use to communicate. It has its own flavour; it's got its own slang. People laugh. People like it. They like us being open.
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No agency is better than its account executives.
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I attended Amherst College from 1951 to 1955. The first two years were a revelation. There were innumerable exchanges with brilliant classmates, among them the playwright Ralph Allen, the classics scholar Robert Fagles, and the composer Michael Sahl.
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Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.
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I like to do Pilates.
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I don't see how I ever could have thought that having an all-white crew for a special about race would be OK.
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If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.
