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Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn't want to see it for myself but I certainly didn't want millions of people to see it.

Quote by Andre Agassi about sport, things, people

It is a rule in life never to apologise. The right sort...

It is a rule in life never to apologise. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

Quote by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse about rules, bad, rightness, life, people

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about love, friendship

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

Quote by Alan Alda about opinion, being, existence, woman, world, good, good luck, man

Last year, I was sort of a kid and I was a little scared, ...

Last year, I was sort of a kid and I was a little scared, I ain't scared any more.

Quote by Hank Aaron

As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before.

Quote by Lester Bangs about drugs, conscience, society, use, things, people

In fact I think now we've reached a point now, where the powers that be really have sort of vested interest in all of us being stoned out as much as possible all the time so we don't know what's going on, and we don't care.

Quote by Lester Bangs about interest, being, time

Talking Heads, were a sorta collegian kinda art school, ...

Talking Heads, were a sorta collegian kinda art school, I'm trying not to make them sound so bad cause I really love em.

Quote by Lester Bangs about heads, talking, school, bad luck, art, magic, bad, love

I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK...

I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.

Quote by Dean Acheson

I lost a lot of weight. I'm thin as it is, but I was...

I lost a lot of weight. I'm thin as it is, but I was probably 50 pounds lighter; and if you're that skinny, your head starts acting sort of funny.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about heads

I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other.

Quote by Kathy Acker about country

We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way.

Quote by Kathy Acker

If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

Quote by Douglas Adams

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond...

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about water, society, americans

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the...

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about advertising, victims, end, self-control, power, man

A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, ...

A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.

Quote by Russell Baker about city

Some moments it feels longer, other moments it feels like it's flown by; you can't believe you've done it all that time... Overall, you have a strong sense for the full spectrum that you've sort of traveled.

Quote by Andre Agassi about time, common sense, sense

Yes, for a long time but I admired her and respected everything that I could sort of see in her from a distance, the pillars of her life, the loyalties, the relationships. It all got my interest and also the looks.

Quote by Andre Agassi about woman, interest, time, life

You know over the last few months since I announced that the U.S. Open was going to be my last tournament I've been very unprepared sort of emotionally and, you know, for the feeling that I would have to deal with, you know, when it would hit me,...

Quote by Andre Agassi about tears

Blake Edwards taught me something. He loves slapstick; I got to be crazy in his films... I got to fall down, get up, and he loves all that, and I knew that I could do that by early on. He was sort of my teacher. He let me do that.

Quote by Kim Basinger about teachers, fall

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