Arthur Ashe Quotes
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.
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I hate wearing makeup because I am just too lazy to take it off at night.
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God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!
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We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.
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Actually, if you could see close in my eyes, the American flag is waving in both of them and up my spine is growing this red, white and blue stripe.
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What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.
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Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is by living as best we can and absorbing those experiences and somehow making intuitive responses in future situations that resemble them in some way.
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If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.
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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
