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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There's a mercurial nature, but more of a mysterious nature to women that I think is what makes them so attractive. And I think that that's what I love: Guys never seem to know when they've come too close and crossed the line, and then the temper comes.
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It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crop.
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Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and enjoyment. They behaved accordingly, with a self-indulgence that was wholly rational, given their situation.
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I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.
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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
