Elena Vesnina Quotes
I think this is the biggest win in my career. To beat Venus in Wimbledon is just something amazing.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.
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I always encourage over-tipping if you can afford it because... share the wealth.
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I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before and I'm physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff.
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Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
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The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.
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Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
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I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.
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The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.
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We came to Iraq to liberate them and to make our world a safer place.
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I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
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He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze.
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The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.
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Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.
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Larry Geller’s Leaves of Elvis’ Garden is by far the best book I have ever read about Elvis. It is emotional, revealing and spiritual, and offers the most amazing insight into the king. I highly recommend this dynamic book.
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It's possible to fund companies for $100,000 and find out rather quickly whether or not the idea they are pursuing has merit. Scientists now work much faster.
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What we feel is beyond words. We should be ashamed of our poems.
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I think this is the biggest win in my career. To beat Venus in Wimbledon is just something amazing.
