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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Our elite believe in a new trinity of equality, democracy and diversity. Indeed, after the Cold War, we declared the spread of democracy worldwide to be our historic mission and national goal.
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On a submicro scale, pure diamond is billions of billions of carbon atoms bonded to one another. If you shrunk yourself down and stood inside the diamond, you'd see nothing but carbon in a perfect pattern in every direction.
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I have a card catalogue in my brain of every lyric of every sappy love song ever written.
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I had a crazy life for a teenager. I lived in New Jersey, but I'd go to Vermont for three weeks, join a commune, take pictures with the guy I was dating, come back home, and post photos.
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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.
