Arthur Ashe Quotes
Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.
Quotes to Explore
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
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I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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I guess I don't believe that death is the end.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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I love all animals. I just happen to prefer cats. They're really chill, and they're loving yet not loving. I relate to them, in a way.
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I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age.
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
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Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
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Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.
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The party on Wall Street never ends - while the rest of us pick up their tab and suffer the hangover.
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While parents possess the original key to their offspring's experience, teachers have a spare key. They, too, can open or close the minds and hearts of children.
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In a globalised world, so many of us move around so much. You lose things, but you also gain things - or hope to gain them.
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I wanted to be a scientist. My undergraduate degree is in biology, and I really did think I might go off and be some kind of a lady Darwin someplace. It turned out that I'm really awful at science and that I have no gift for actually doing science myself. But I'm very interested in others who practice science and in the stories of science.
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I don't know why so many artists talk about the mainstream's problems from the fringe. I think, unfortunately, it's almost like our education makes us too safe and terrified to step into the world.
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Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.
