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My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do. I knew I was not going to be controlled. I knew there was a price for this, but I did not know there was as large a price as it turned out to be. ↗

— Bill Dixon

#career #controlled #did #different #going

Tennis players we're always playing in center courts that feel like arenas. And when we get on the court and the crowd cheers your name or salutes you - it's like you're a gladiator in the arena. And everyone is cheering - and you're fighting, you're screaming, during your strokes - it feels like you're an animal, fighting for your life. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#animal #arena #arenas #center #cheering

Nothing exists if a store doesn't buy it and you're not able to get it. ↗

— Carrie Donovan

#buy #exists #get #nothing #store

Even for women without children, trading hours that produce income for hours that produce “only” art seems like a foolish decision. What a loss for the world, though, to have women's voices silenced because art is our last priority. ↗

— Holly Robinson

#gender #women #art

Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution. ↗

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

#arrange #compelling #could #discover #enough

I don't get recognized all the time, but it tends to happen more in America, and people are so lovely when they do. ↗

— Michelle Dockery

#get #happen #i #lovely #more

Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books. ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#books #both #get #i #i think

Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#beholden #congress #corporate #corporate interests #damaged

I want to spend more time with those kids. I want to dedicate my time to train those kids and teach them what it takes, what they need to do to get to this level. ↗

— Thomas Dooley

#get #i #kids #level #more

If I get a hard audience they are not going to get away until they laugh. Those seven laughs a minute - I've got to have them. ↗

— Ken Dodd

#away #get #going #got #hard