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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When I was a graduate student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop for fiction writing, I felt both coveted and hated. My white classmates never failed to remind me that I was more fortunate than they were at this particular juncture in American literature.
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I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up everyday armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.
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Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was playing for were women.
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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
