Arthur Ashe Quotes
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.
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I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.
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It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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I don't hit it as far as a lot of guys do, so I have to be in the right spot in the fairway to score, and that means driving it well. The two biggest keys for me are to make a good transition and to keep my hands ahead of the clubhead through impact. I want to feel as if my swing is two swings: one going back and another coming down.
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I have vitamins I intend to take to be a better person. I even have a pillbox for them to remind myself to be healthier. But will I take them? Definitely not.
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You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.
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If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.
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Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
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In America, we may acknowledge Washington and Lincoln as great men, and probably Franklin and Jefferson and maybe Franklin Delano Roosevelt and possibly even several more, but we would probably disagree about precisely what it was that made them great, what it was that enabled them to give a lasting direction to the course of events.
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I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
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Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
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A sign that negotiations were handled well on both sides is that everybody probably feels a little bit like they didn't get what they wanted.
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Those that coach 10 years that take a year off are three times better coaches... in year 11.
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My son was born during my last semester in college. His due date was Thanksgiving, but he didn't show up until finals week. I brought my books to the hospital and didn't think anything of it. That is what a father is supposed to do.
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I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.
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To be in the privileged position where I am able to give something back is, for me, perhaps the single most important measure of success.
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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
