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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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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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 secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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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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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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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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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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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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I really do believe we can stuff enough algorithms in a movie that only the dedicated hackers can spend the time and effort to try to plumb through those 1,000 algorithms to try to find a way to beat it.
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Do the best job I can, not hurt our fellow beings on this planet, that's my religion.
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It might not be pretty, but the A-10 is our most capable close air-support aircraft, and its arrival on the battlefield signals survival for our troops and annihilation for our enemies.
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The attitude of, 'I will never self-publish,' coming from any author, indicates that they have never been in a position where it is their only option.
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Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it.
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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.
