Althea Gibson Quotes
Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It doesn't matter what brand. If it looks good I buy it.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'
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I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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What did this long-range goodwill mean, and what did it say about the social contract that allowed a rich man to free all of his descendents from the need to work over the course of almost two centuries?
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I work hard, whether it comes to writing for my own project or another artist.
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It is part of the work of education to have substantive relationships with your students.
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I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
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Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway.
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Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.
