Arthur Ashe Quotes
I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That's no contribution to society. [Tennis] was purely selfish; that was for me.Arthur Ashe
Quotes to Explore
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
Dan Brown -
I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
Harold Prince -
I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
Beck Bennett -
Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.
Ralph Steadman -
My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
Banks -
I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.
Octavia Spencer
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
Rachel Kushner -
We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough.
Walter Cronkite -
I think when I first started cycling, it wasn't that popular with kids. I felt almost embarrassed going down the road on my road bike; I didn't want my friends to see me because it was embarrassing.
Laura Trott -
I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.
Rachael Ray -
I watch a lot of football.
Paolo Sorrentino
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People that don't know me get 'Mossed'. It means, I was gonna go home, but then I just got led astray. In the best possible way, of course. I mean, it's always fun, and a good time.
Kate Moss -
Babies choose to lackadaisically notice the quirkiest of details - unlike us grown ups, who choose instead to focus on what we believe is most essential to us. As a result, babies have a greater expanded consciousness than us grown-ups!
Karen Salmansohn -
New markets could be created by rural potentials, which could lead to rise in the employment.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
I'm going to say my favorite thing is to eat salads, and I'll be like the altar boy.
Lamar Odom -
Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
Patrick deWitt -
I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
Madi Diaz
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On Churchill's Accent 'Ve must conquer da Narjies!' Now, we were fighting and killing Nazis. We all left and went looking for Narjies!
Mel Brooks -
You know how it always is, every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there's no real problem. It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.
Richard Feynman -
Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.
Kent Conrad -
My dad was not super-intentional in his parenting. He was very self-absorbed. I won't say mean or selfish per se, but very self-absorbed. I think he was just thinking out loud.
Angela Duckworth -
Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies.
George Will -
I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That's no contribution to society. [Tennis] was purely selfish; that was for me.
Arthur Ashe