Arthur Ashe Quotes
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Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.
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I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something.
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I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was, not just about love, but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth, of loyalty, sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me.
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I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star.
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I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.
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I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.
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My goal isn't to shock.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.
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All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.
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I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax.
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To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
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I remember, when I was growing up in Baltimore, we'd get on a streetcar and go down to see the Orioles, and for a couple of bucks, you could get a pretty good seat. Kids can't do that anymore. So I think that changes the whole nature of sports.
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I always had this curiosity about acting, but I was really into sports, and I never really thought about acting as a career. My senior year, I tried out for the high school production of 'The Wizard of Oz,' and that was it for me.
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I love to go out. I love the outdoors. I love outdoor sports. I'm a big traveler.
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If you don't change with the times, the times are going to change you.
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There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'
