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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The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.
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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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And I think people who sort of glibly say, 'Well, you know, they're not going to handle security, UAE is a great ally,' four and a half years ago, they were not an ally, they were working with the enemy, and if those same people are still there today that were there then, these are real serious issues.
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To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.
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I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's why I became an actor.
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My main aim is to change our perception of how we look at vegetables because I think vegetables have always been put on the side - it's always been your steamed broccoli or boiled broccoli with your meat.
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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.
