All I cared about in tennis was winning.
Pete Sampras
Recitation: by Male by Female
My whole life, people have doubted me. My mom did. People told me in high school I'm too short and not fast enough to play basketball. They didn't know my story. Because if they did, they'd know that anything is possible.
Jimmy Butler
LifeSchoolPeopleMeMomStory
The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.
Anna Garlin Spencer
WorkEducationDailyExperienceRace
I love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It's much better watching a movie with 500 people making noise than with just a dozen.
Steven Spielberg
LovePeopleBetterGoWatchingBig
It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me.
Tracey Ullman
MeSadnessThingsGetsPoignancy
Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead.
Tom Perez
AloneEnoughAheadPayGetMany
Tweeting? It's one of the silliest things ever.
Tom Ford
ThingsTweetingEverSilliest
While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
Mary Wortley Montagu
FriendPeaceMindOffendedFarewell
People still look at me as the champion and that's very important to me.
Marvin Hagler
PeopleMeChampionLookImportant
I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important.
Christopher Meloni
WorkLoveSayingAttentionActing
I mean, that's kind of what this business is about in some ways. You're trying to make everybody like you. But you can't do that. You can't force everybody - anybody to like you if they're just not willing to do it.
Clay Aiken
BusinessTryingYouKindMeanForce
Be fun! I don't like homes or rooms that don't have a sense of humor or have some sense of whimsy or a personality. Your home should reflect who you are, and what you love. I would never have something in my home because it's the thing to have. I have to love it and it needs some connection to me.
Bryan Batt
LoveHomeHumorPersonalityFunMe
As it happens, Chicago is the nation's leader in municipal privatization efforts. That's right: The city that conservatives portray as the citadel of the power-grabbing, government-growing left has been selling itself off in pieces for years. It signed a 99-year lease for the Chicago Skyway, a toll road in the city's South Side, back in 2005.
Thomas Frank
LeaderCityRoadBackSellingRight
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