Stan Smith (Stanley Roger Smith) Quotes
When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can.
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I just love playing in major championships.
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CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court.
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Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.
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My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.
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We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
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By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.
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I can discern that certain things have an effect on certain other things, but I don't view those effects as good or bad. If a context and a goal is defined, I could say if it's good or bad. But overall, I don't view things as good or bad.
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.
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Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
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My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.
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I'm always on the court with my dad.
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I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.
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When I do stand-up for a long time, I'll get burned out, then I'll get an acting gig. For me, the grass is always greener. I'd like to do a mixture of all of it. My goal is just to do small movies that I've written. That's what I'm trying to do now, just write smaller movies.
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You never know what's going to happen, but our goal is to keep everything together. We have a lot to do trying to get ready for next year and continuing to add to our team and continuing to build something. I know we have the right kind of character and right kind of players to build around.
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I suppose playing an older man is a way of preparing myself for getting older.
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You can achieve almost any goal if you just do what other successful people have done to achieve the same goals before you.
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To remain confident and positive, think about your goals all the time.
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When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated.
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I got blessed from my mom. She's the personality; she's the one who smiled, so I took on part of her, and who also wanted to help and save the world. Then I took on part of my dad, who is tough.
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I wrote about the life of a housing officer in Britain, in a pretty rough area of London. Maybe it was because I'm a big-mouth and an exhibitionist, and I'm slightly egotistical. All those things have to come together for a writer.
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I came to rock at this party Cause I can make you feel alright Sweet boy, you're rocking your body I'll get you straight to the night Oh oh, you want this body Oh oh, you want it now Sweet boy, you're rocking your body Cause I'm gon make you mine tonight
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When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can.
