Dave McPherson Quotes
Nothing is etched in stone in tennis until the final point has been played. That's why we watch.
Quotes to Explore
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody'. I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A. It's four chapters.
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If Wanda can control more than 20 per cent of the world's three most important film markets - the United States, Europe and China - then it will have an empire with great voice in the industry.
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers - I have family everywhere - is the most important thing.
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I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
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In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.
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Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.
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We never wore burkas because Somalis had our own culture.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.
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In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
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I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue.
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It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.
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For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don't think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I'm with them.
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The month of Ramadan is the world's most widespread fast and yet its teachings are minimised, neglected and even betrayed (through literal application of rules that overlooks their ultimate objective).
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We probably haven't seen the variety and diversity of threats to Americans' safety and well-being and our national security in a long, long time. Some have said it almost makes you yearn for the Cold War days when you knew who the bad guys were and who the good guys were, and there was a wall dividing us.
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If you want success, be unique.
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I was forbidden to talk to my fellow hostages.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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There is so many things to do in life rather than playing tennis, so I'm sure I will find something. I just need a bit of time to kind of settle down.
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We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.
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What’s the point of saving time if we don’t use it to savor what makes life worth living?
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If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.
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Nothing is etched in stone in tennis until the final point has been played. That's why we watch.
