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 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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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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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 watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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I attempted to fish in Scotland and I managed to hook a dog. It was a horrible moment but the dog turned out to be fine.
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I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.
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The years I spent paying my dues are in the background, and so are my concerns about whether my performance is good or bad.
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That is one of the reasons why we advocate for good relations between the two countries. Turkey understands the needs of the region.
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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.
