Arthur Ashe Quotes
I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
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As an organization, Esri is strong, and we're continuing to grow. We're dedicated to this. And we're excited to see what you can accomplish and to watch your work evolve.
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Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
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How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the companies we have.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
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My literary success meant nothing to me.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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I would love to do a Western again if Westerns came back into fashion.
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I get very angry when I'm hungry and there isn't time for lunch.
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You have to turn the lemons life gives you into lemonade, and you have to take time to sit back and enjoy it.
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Without being disrespectful to Jimmy Kelly, I'd rather fight Shane Mosley than Jimmy Kelly.
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[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.
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I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
