Arthur Ashe Quotes
I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.
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And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.
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The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
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The fact that two-thirds of Americans who work at small businesses will see premium increases because of the health law is devastating news. This is one more in a long line of broken promises from President Obama and Washington Democrats.
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College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
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Music is about the performance.
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If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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I do not have any pets. We travel too much.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
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My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.
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I think one of my first jokes - in the black community, there's people who have jokes about skin tone. People like, 'You so black, you purple.' 'You so black, you gotta smile so we can see you at night.'
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If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.
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The problem of experiences is not limited to the interpretation of sense-impressions.
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The most that can be said of flattery is that it is sometimes a cheap psychological trick with which charlatans and dishonest people lull others into a state of carelessness while they pick their pockets.
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To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.
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I believe most things can be said in a few lines.
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I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.
