Arthur Ashe Quotes
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I definitely had to do some soul searching, and there would be a lot of times where I would sit back and look at the Internet and say to myself, 'This is a way of being able to communicate with all my fans all over the world, other than just being in New York and only hearing the New York side of things.'
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I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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I believe in aging gracefully.
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Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.
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Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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I feel that, at this point in my career, I don't want to do another television show. I don't want to do a film.
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Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.
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One hundred eighty years later, we know that the eyes of the world are fixed upon us. And we must ask ourselves: what kind of an example of freedom do we give to our age? What are the true marks of our America-and what do they mean to the world?
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Inner values like friendship, trust, honesty and compassion are much more reliable than money - they always bring happiness and strength.
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In life, I take my decisions and stand by them. Some decisions may have proven to be not the best, but I have learnt from them, and I've never repeated a mistake again. If someone tells me to turn left, I will go right! I could not have been taught a lesson in any other way rather than by going through it.
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I need to think about 'Make sure you drink your water.' That's the kind of person I am.
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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
