Bud Collins Quotes
They're building this new stadium for 23,000 people, which is too big for tennis. They've got their $90,000 boxes, which they can sell to people who don't care about money. But will there be room for kids? Will there be bleachers? You can't build tennis for fat cats. You have to interest new people.
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If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
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Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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When girls bully, it's very subtle, and you can't define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It's psychological with girls.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.
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'No Bones' has some reverb that I kick around.
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
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The imperfections in my family made me learn to deal with things on my own and solve problems for myself.
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I think that inexpensive sources of planet-friendly energy are one of the most important things for us to pursue.
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I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.
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Management’ll never go for it. First, it’s live-animal research, which is controversial. Management hates controversy. Second, it’s something innovative, which means Management will hate it on principle.
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I think you do independent movies because you're looking to cut away from commercial movies.
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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
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Because I hate fake people and I always think I'm never fake.
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I write a lot about disadvantaged people, particularly vulnerable children, because I feel that that's who I was. That is familiar terrain for me. And I try to write about things that are very close to me because I want people to feel the passion that I have for the subject.
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It's not the time to look for excuses.
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Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I'm just this quiet nobody, and all of a sudden people are nervous around me. That was kind of weird.
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Anything we can do in the near future that begins to stimulate the interest of people - seeing somebody down the street have an opportunity to go into space - buoys up the whole neighborhood.
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They're building this new stadium for 23,000 people, which is too big for tennis. They've got their $90,000 boxes, which they can sell to people who don't care about money. But will there be room for kids? Will there be bleachers? You can't build tennis for fat cats. You have to interest new people.
