Arthur Ashe Quotes
Some folks call tennis a rich people's sport or a white person's game. I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do. Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis. You've got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.
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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.
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The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
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I feel for the overly thin women as I do for the overweight women.
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When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
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Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more.
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Those rebels who rise up to try to wrest back power from despotic forces will endure not only the violence of the state, but the hatred and vigilante violence meted out by the self-deluded victims of exploitation. The systems of propaganda will relentlessly demonize those who resist.
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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
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I feel like you've gotta be able to get up every night in front of a live audience. Whether it's 10 people or 50 people or a hundred people, whether you're in a rock band or doing the comedy circuit.
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Some folks call tennis a rich people's sport or a white person's game. I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do. Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis. You've got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.
