Arthur Ashe Quotes
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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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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Oklahoma is very entrepreneurial.
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With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren't going to wait years and years for the next book.
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Originally I was supposed to do Grand Prix, but I was under contract to 20th Century Fox at that time and Alex North was supposed to do Sand Pebbles, but he got sick, so Fox preempted me out of Grand Prix, and to my good fortune, I got to do Sand Pebbles. It was my first time working with Robert Wise and it was a great experience.
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Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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Be aware that the fire that does not grow is extinguished.
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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
