John McEnroe Quotes

When I was 15 and playing in Kalamazoo, I ran into a light pole on the side of the court and was knocked out for a little while - when I woke up, I was seeing stars!

John McEnroe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 16, 1959

Topics

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See, 'A Time to Kill' was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

Matthew McConaughey

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It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.

John Phillips

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He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

Mikhail Bakunin

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Water is a cure-all. Water is everything. You can't get better without drinking lots of water, and you can't drink water unless it's clean.

Josh Fox

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As a sociolinguist, I want to know how cultural differences affect the ways people talk and listen. My research method, inspired by the work of Robin Lakoff and John Gumperz of the University of California at Berkeley, is sociolinguistic microanalysis. I tape-record and transcribe naturally occurring conversations.

Deborah Tannen

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I follow the most random people on Twitter. I follow famous people like Khloe Kardashian, who surprisingly makes really funny tweets all the time.

Chloe Grace Moretz

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If I can't write it would be as if I died.

Chris Cleave

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I try to find creative ways to put ideas out to make the ground fertile for organizers.

Boots Riley

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When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.

Brad Paisley

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People want to be entertained. They don't want to be cheated.

Pep Guardiola

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I think you can lose yourself more easily in a film than in the theater.

Pauline Collins

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My priorities are: I need to be good; I need to be well within for my children to be well within; and then the creative process flows, organically and smoothly. I'm not looking to experience what I went through in the 'Livin' La Vida Loca' days again.

Ricky Martin

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