Lindsay Davenport Quotes
Some times you lose more than you win. It's about handling losses and trying to turn them into positives. You get out into the big leagues and there's a period of adjustment to be made. You've got to handle it.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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I am who I am.
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I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidden meanings. If you're writing science fiction, you're writing rocket ships. If you write dystopian fiction, it's inequity where The Man must be fought.
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Making music is fantastic.
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If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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If you watch a television show made by accomplished professionals of children's TV, it's all very expressive.
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Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.
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What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?
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What froze me was the fact that I had absolutely no reason to move in any direction. What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity. Now even that flickered out.
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What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source material.
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Some times you lose more than you win. It's about handling losses and trying to turn them into positives. You get out into the big leagues and there's a period of adjustment to be made. You've got to handle it.
