Arthur Ashe Quotes

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

Arthur Ashe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 10, 1943 - February 6, 1993

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I was doing a Broadway musical called 'Smile' with Howard Ashman and Marvin Hamlisch in 1984/5 when it abruptly closed. Howard was in the middle of pre-production for 'The Little Mermaid,' so he kindly invited all the girls in our cast to audition for the film.

Jodi Benson

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I might just be the luckiest girl ever.

Jenny Han

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I feel a buzzing at the base of my neck. It's like I'm on eternal 'vibrate' in case of an emergency.

John Edward

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Any ideas of 'other' are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of 'normal.'

Meshell Ndegeocello

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I like to go off the other actors in the scene, which kind of stinks when you're acting with someone who's not that great.

Ross Lynch

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Joyce Brothers

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The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion.

Christopher Hitchens

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I like to put something on and want to listen to it again once I get done listening to it, not feel like I need an ear break.

Chris Stapleton

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Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

Wyndham Lewis

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He asked my girlfriend if we could come over and sing some of the songs that we had written, which we did. After he heard the songs, he said that he knew someone in the record business by the name of Bob Shad.

Phil Harris

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Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.

Petra Nemcova

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I've interviewed multiple people who know bin Laden... who tend to have a universal picture of what he's like, which is: modest, retiring, unassuming, kind of thoughtful - lots of things that don't fit with a mass murderer, which he is as well.

Peter Bergen

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