Lleyton Hewitt Quotes

You always love playing in finals at any tournament. The grand slams and stuff like that are obviously the priorities but any titles go on your record.

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• This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Words
  • Thought
  • Desert

• It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.

  

  Om Puri
  • Actor
  • Living
  • Significance

• I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • World
  • Travel
  • Chance

• Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • America
  • Food
  • Creative

• The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Life
  • Book
  • Trade

• I don't like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, 'Blah blah blah movies.' I find it incredibly boring.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Business
  • Movies

• People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Music
  • Way

• My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Game
  • Favorite
  • Pyramid

• We don't worry about the integrity of our game. I'm more focused on the atmosphere in the arena, and that's something we're comfortable with going forward.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Game
  • Worry
  • Integrity

• Winning excuses everything.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Winning
  • Everything
  • Excuses

• I'm a pro-horserace guy.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Guy

• I watched videos of great players. I was inspired by what they did, then I used to try things out in training.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Great
  • Training
  • Inspired

• Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Up
  • Today
  • Nothing

• The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Freedom
  • Single
  • Spiritual

• I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Time
  • Work
  • Movie

• One of my favorite films is 1994's 'Little Women', with Winona Ryder and Kirsten Dunst.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Women
  • Favorite
  • Little

• It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • May
  • Justice
  • Humanity

• I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM working for Arthur Freed or Gene Kelly or Vincent Minelli. Historical and geographical constraints made this impossible. Slowly but surely the pen became mightier than the double pick-up time step with shuffle.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I'm totally against the idea of a celebrity editor.

  

  David Zinczenko
  • Celebrity

• "So, why do I have so much fear in my life?" "Because you don't believe. You don't know that we love you. The person who lives by his fears will not find freedom in my love. I am not talking about rational fears regarding legitimate dangers, but imagined fears, and especially the projection of those into the future. To the degree that those fears have a place in your life, you neither believe that I am good not know deep in your heart that I love you. You sing about it, you talk about it, but you don't know it."

  

  William P. Young
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Freedom

• We could talk, act, and dress funny. We were excused for socially inappropriate behavior: 'Oh, he's a programmer'. It was all because we knew this technology stuff that other people found completely mystifying.

  

  Kent Beck
  • People
  • Funny
  • Technology

• It always seemed to me that white people were judged as individuals. But if a Negro did something stupid or wrong, it was held against all of us.

  

  Annie Elizabeth Delany
  • People
  • White
  • Negro

• You always love playing in finals at any tournament. The grand slams and stuff like that are obviously the priorities but any titles go on your record.

  

  Lleyton Hewitt