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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The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
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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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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
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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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Every businessman, or every person who has a passion for his work, is torn for the time spent at work and the time spent with your family.
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The true facts are not always obvious. They often have to be looked for.
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I grew up 60 minutes way from Richmond, in Charlottesville, Virginia and, as a child, I was obsessed with the Civil War. I used to do re-enactments and all that stuff.
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Look, I've heard a lot of people talk about me, they say I'm like Marmite. They like me, or they don't like me.
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I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television.
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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.
