Arthur Ashe Quotes
Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.
Arthur Ashe
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Olivia Colman
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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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.
Barbara Kingsolver
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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?
Vidya Balan
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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.'
Ed Koch
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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.
P. J. O'Rourke
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God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth and He tries you through and through.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way. As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind.
Charles Dickens
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It is impossible, after a certain point, to go back to a previous way of life, a previous way of thinking.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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I knew I couldn't sing over them, so I decided to sing under them. The more noise they made the more softly I sang. When they discovered they couldn't hear me, they began to look at me. Then they began to listen. As I sang, I kept thinking, 'softly with feeling.' The noise dropped to a hum; the hum gave way to silence. I had learned how to reach and hold my audience -- softly, with feeling.
Norma Deloris Egstrom
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Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.
Arthur Ashe