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Jim Courier Quotes

Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: August 17, 1970

Topics

Intellectual Kind Development Tennis

As Secretary of State, we need someone with sound judgment, ask tough questions, and should not be willing to just read talking points.

Tough Someone Questions Talking Need

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

History Experience Yourself World

I'm a massive fragrance fan - I think fragrance is part of someone's hygiene, and I'm a big believer in leaving an impression through scent.

Think Someone Fragrance Leaving Big

It went from Bob Newhart to Flip Wilson to Bill Cosby to Richard Pryor to George Carlin to Cheech and Chong. I had all these records.

Records Flip Bob Had Richard Pryor

I was the night foreman of a galvanizing factory, which is hot and smelly and dirty and miserable.

Ronald Perelman

Night Dirty Hot Miserable Factory

Greenies have been part of the clubhouse culture longer than card games.

Culture Games Been Than Part Longer

Anytime I'm playing music or getting ready to record, Duane Allman will enter my thoughts, and so will Berry Oakley. It's part of my musical makeup and mental process when it comes to music. We learned to play together and taught each other a lot.

Music Together Thoughts Makeup Play

When you're an expert in a subject, you can retain new factoids on your favorite topic easily. This only works for the subjects you're truly passionate about, though. Baseball fans can reel off stats for their favorite players, then space out on their own birthday.

Birthday Baseball Space You New Out

I don't think I'm an unhappy person. It's just an intensity, not a depressive thing. It's just not having enough layers of skin. It's exhausting.

Think Unhappy Enough Person Skin

Guys would always start by saying, 'You ain't going to get nothing today, Sharpe!' And I'd say, 'Know what? Don't be surprised if your name is on the waiver wire tomorrow. It could have been prevented. But you wanted to go there. So now when you see your name on the wire, you'll know who put it there.'

Today Tomorrow Start Saying Name Go

Villains are always the best roles, but that meant that for months afterwards, all I got offered were absolute cads and bounders and really nasty pieces of work, as well as a lot of people who only had one arm. Such is the limited imaginative power, you see, of a great many casting directors.

Tim Pigott-Smith

Work Power Great Best People You

If people work together in an open way with porous boundaries - that is, if they listen to each other and really talk to each other - then they are bound to trade ideas that are mutual to each other and be influenced by each other. That mutual influence and open system of working creates collaboration.

Work Together Ideas Collaboration

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