Arthur Ashe Quotes
Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.
Arthur Ashe
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
Garth Nix
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Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.
Flavor Flav
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You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
Wayne Dyer
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The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.
Earl Weaver
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I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'
Vidal Sassoon
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I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.
J. B. Pritzker
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I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
Harmony Korine
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I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it.
Aaron Neville
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My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.
Eddie Izzard
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I made a big family when I was working at 'Vogue' for ten years, and I'm still friends with a lot of them.
Carine Roitfeld
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You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.
Nancy Gibbs
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Sallust
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Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.
Larry King
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Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.
Rachel Cusk
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When I am shooting a film, and it has a big schedule, I make sure that I take a week off with the family. It gives you new energy.
Mahesh Babu
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A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality.
Yo-Yo Ma
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When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day.
J. D. Hayworth
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So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Just about every therapist or counselor or social worker is practiced in dealing with people going through failing relationships, ending them, and confronting issues of custody and support.
Laura Wasser
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The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men.
Christian Louboutin
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You spend your life having lessons, practising and competing as an amateur, and working during the day. As you get to the top end of the amateur field, you try not to work anymore; you earn your living through dancing, maybe by doing a bit of teaching. It's an ongoing life's work.
Anton du Beke
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Each role that I've played has had a piece of a dream role in it.
Dakota Fanning
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There's no one else like Hodor on 'Game of Thrones.' There's no other character with that warmth, humanity, and a little bit of comic relief.
Kristian Nairn
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Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.
Arthur Ashe
