Arthur Ashe Quotes
Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.
Quotes to Explore
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.
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In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.
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When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
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I think everybody goes through things in their life where they're like, 'This does not make any sense,' or 'I don't understand why this is happening,' but that's part of the journey of faith.
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Shoes are important to me because I don't do much with my clothes.
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'Life as a Dog' is when I really started to feel comfortable, like I had the due north on my compass.
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
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There was nothing about 'The Killing' that patronized its audience, and it was quite slow and detailed, all of the things which, for a long time, people had been nervous of making.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
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I like all things natural, and I love being Indian. So clothes-wise, I love wearing Indian. Does my wearing a salwar kameez instead of a dress make me less of an actor, less of a person?
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People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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It's counterproductive to blither on about "the" future. It's always somebody's future, and we're not who we used to be.
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You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames. But if you find your great-great-grandfather in 1870 and it says he's 50, that means he was born in 1820 and you're back to 1820 already. For an American that's pretty damned good, you know?
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When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised.
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From my training I can get a good idea of what I'm capable of.
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Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.
