Andre Agassi Quotes

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

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• I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Believe
  • Peace
  • Mercy

• The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Great
  • You
  • Year

• You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Done
  • Know
  • Religion

• The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Problem
  • Color
  • Line

• I went to a girls' school, and it was awful. The combination of my teenage anger and their jealousy meant I was always getting into fights. There was a lot of pulling of hair and scratching of faces and rolling around on the floor.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • School
  • Hair
  • Anger

• I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Play
  • Myself
  • Piano

• Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • Creative

• When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock.

  

  Gail Tsukiyama
  • Book
  • Clock
  • Finishing

• The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Well
  • Arts
  • Thrive

• I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Believe
  • Potential

• My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Good
  • Bread
  • Cheese

• A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

  

  Quintilian
  • Laugh
  • Too Much
  • Costs

• I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Serious
  • Issues
  • Diabetic

• Twitter may have a cute-sounding name, but it exists, it generates a ton of content, it implicates all types of people, and it has nuances that are important to get right. Hopefully, its careless rendering by sloppy journalists won't lead to the dumbification of America.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • People
  • Important
  • May

• My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Soldier

• When I was 15, I worked as a bag boy in a grocery store. I also needed to walk old ladies to their car and put their bags in the car, and they would give me two dollars. I felt like the richest man in the world.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • World
  • Man
  • Car

• Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Life
  • Despair
  • Salvation

• Europe is a community of half a billion people, more than Russia and the United States combined.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Community
  • Europe

• Middle Eastern cuisine has the same depth of ingredients and processes as other cuisines. They just haven't had as much exposure.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Same
  • Middle
  • Exposure

• True fans of the Constitution, like true fans of the national pastime, acknowledge the critical role of human judgment in making tough calls. We don't expect flawless interpretation. We expect good faith. We demand honesty.

  

  Eric Liu
  • Good
  • True
  • Faith

• The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of America, the rise of the homeowner, the build-out of the interstate highway system, and the rise of automobile culture. Credit availability expanded dramatically.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • America
  • Culture
  • Period

• I tried the guitar, but it had two strings too many. It was just too complicated, man! Plus, I grew up with Steve Cropper. There were so many good guitar players, another one wasn't needed. What was needed was a bass.

  

  Donald Dunn
  • Up
  • Good

• What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

  

  Andre Agassi