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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If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will.
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I think that the cinema is a physical thing. What I'm looking for is creating a physical shock with the audience. I don't care of the meaning. I don't care of the idea. I don't want to say something. I want to make a 'shock physique.'
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In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
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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.
