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Arthur Ashe Quotes

I have always drawn strength from being close to home.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Strength Home Always Being Close

Movies are this thing that came into my life, and it still feels pretend in some way. I kind of do this thing, and I never really accepted this idea that I'm a film actor. That's what I do. I feel like I'm a theater actor that started doing films. Most people have never seen me in a play. They're fun, though.

Life Fun People Me My Life Doing

I never pretended to be a great actor.

Great Actor Never Pretended

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

Leadership Choice Position

It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

Passion Freedom Discipline Me Admire

I'm very flattered, but I don't think I'm the sexiest man on the planet.

Man Think Planet Sexiest Very

It's going to be impossible in the 21st century for anyone to think about anything without a Chinese aspect.

Impossible Think Without Anything

The book of 'The Hobbit' was given to me to read by a friend of my mother when I was about 12 years old: it set my life on a different path. Next, I read 'The Lord of The Rings' trilogy, then 'The Silmarillion' and Homers 'The Odyssey' and every Greek/Roman/Viking myth book I could get my hands on. Pretty heavy reading for a 12 year old.

Life Friend Mother Path Me Reading

Talking about income inequality, even if you're not on the Forbes 400 list, can make us feel uncomfortable. It feels less positive, less optimistic, to talk about how the pie is sliced than to think about how to make the pie bigger.

Chrystia Freeland

Positive Think Talking Uncomfortable

Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.

Life Art Everyday Movement Longer

Our workers, our American people who are already struggling, are going to continue to struggle until we can get somebody who can bring some business sense to Washington D.C., and I think that is the one thing I bring.

Bobby Schilling

Business Struggle People Think Bring

'1984,' one of the most important works ever written, helped us understand the Cold War. In '1984,' the dictatorship was always surveilling you. Now, young people want to be surveyed. They want people to know where they are at all times.

Anthony Kennedy

War People Cold You Know Young

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

Life Foundation Think My Life Wonder

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