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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?

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Walk You Point Playing Paid

Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering of standards can only erode the art form we all love.

Robert Gottlieb

Love Art Fun Long Bad Run

I can open up any can of worms and get people upset.

People I Can Upset Open Up Get

Profit, wealth creation, competition - these are not dirty words but the lifeblood of a dynamic economy.

Ana Patricia Botin

Words Competition Wealth Dirty

A hot air balloon requires a great deal of fuel to keep it aloft, so that you can't fly it even for one day. A gas balloon, which usually uses helium, has the problem that the helium cools at night when the sun is not on it, and you have to throw ballast overboard to keep it from going to the surface.

Great Day Sun Fly Night Problem

Predicting oil prices is anyone's guess.

Oil Prices Guess Predicting Anyone

The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.

Change Promises Constitution Meaning

The success of the few does not excuse the caste-like system that exists for many. In fact, black exceptionalism - the high-profile, highly visible examples of the black success - actually serves to justify and rationalize mass incarceration.

Michelle Alexander

Success Black System Incarceration

We live in a world where, for whatever reason, the conversations that tend to stick are the ones where 'if it bleeds, it leads.' But we've always been afraid of new technologies in spite of the fact that they've helped improve our lives in countless ways.

Live World New Reason Improve Stick

I've been blessed. I have no complaints. I've been surrounded by people in radio, on stage and in motion pictures and television who love me. The things that have gone wrong have been simply physical things.

Love People Me Blessed Love Me

When I see people wasting their hours doing nothing productive, nothing to contribute to the world, nothing to build relationships, it makes me sad. Actually, it makes me mad. I want to scream, 'Wake up!'.

Sad People Me World Wake Up Doing

This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way we tell stories as much as movie film has.

Technology Result Will Way Become

Trejo is one of the oldest boxing gyms in Cuba; it's outdoor, and every great champion the country has produced has passed through and was forged in the open air.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

Great Champion Country Boxing Cuba

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