Nick Bollettieri (Nicholas James Bollettieri) Quotes
Only a few, determined individuals possess the resolve and focus to become the best at anything; and I wanted to be one of them.
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Don't trust anyone over 30.
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I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
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I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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Nobody took you out for lunch when I started. Carla Bruni took me out for lunch once. She was really nice. Otherwise, you don't get fed.
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My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.
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I spent 12 years of my life, the last six years training six to eight hours a day, every day of my life. At the time, when I was 20 to 26, I could do things like that, and you're not going to notice it.
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl.
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My input for the first 16, 17 years of my life was AM radio, FM radio - pretty mainstream stuff. Rolling Stone was probably as edgy as it got.
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My long-range mission is to be the first athlete to win the Nobel Prize.
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Historically, the National Religious Party, which my party - Jewish Home - is built upon, has aligned itself in consecutive Israeli governments with the ultra-Orthodox factions.
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I can't put this delicately - everyone goes to their high school reunion wanting to see who they 'beat.'
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Rather than exist each day in some dull, boring habitual manner, move into action on a big idea. Everyone is on the brink of possibility. Your responsibility is to discover what that possibility is for you. Ideas can turn you on, they can wind you up. The right idea can and will add a new dimension to your life.
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Only a few, determined individuals possess the resolve and focus to become the best at anything; and I wanted to be one of them.
