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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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 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 hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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The game of football, especially in the NFL, is all about situations, and coming out on the big end of that stick.
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Everybody when you propose and talk about putting your life together, the ultimate goal is the same. I think sometimes people forget your background and however you were raised. You want to have a different route to get to that goal.
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But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?
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It places value on experience versus intellectual understanding. I saw a lot of people contemplating things but it didn't seem to lead to too many places. I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than an intellectual, abstract understanding.
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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.
