Arthur Ashe Quotes
If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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You need to let your hair produce its own oils and be healthy.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I love to write.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
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The art of communication is the language of leadership.
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When we get government off the backs of our job creators, small businesses have a better chance of thriving. And when small businesses thrive, so does our economy.
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What is hard to remember when you're in the middle of it is that when you get through to the other side, you always walk away with a gift. If you can stand in there and not walk away from it, you get transformed by it.
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I prefer wearing comfortable clothes.
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Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.
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If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?
