"I play tennis for a living even though I hate tennis, hate it with a dark and secret passion and always have."

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Source : Andre Agassi (2009). “Open”, p.3, Vintage

Andre Agassi

#Hate Quotes #Passion Quotes #Dark Quotes

“End with an image and don't explain.”
“Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.”
“I knew that to find and to feel Yoav again would be terribly painful, because of what had become of him, and because of what I knew he could ignite in me, a vitality that was excruciating because like a flare it lit up the emptiness inside me and exposed what I always secretly knew about myself: how much time I'd spent being only partly alive, and how easily I'd accepted a lesser life.”
“As disciples of Christ, we have a sacred obligation to uphold His laws and commandments and the covenants which we take upon ourselves.”
“When you're travelling, your day is jam-packed. I just don't have time to whip out a PC all the time. But I can whip out a BlackBerry and tweet. I keep a constant diary of where I'm at and why I'm there.”
“Under our system of three branches of government, the courts ultimately are the checks on the legislative and executive branches when they exceed or even abuse the limits of their power.”

Source : "Trump's Criticism Of Judges Out Of Line With Past Presidents". Interview with Nina Totenberg, kucb.org. February 11, 2017.
“I myself feel, and also tell other Buddhists that the question of Nirvana will come later. There is not much hurry. If in day to day life you lead a good life, honesty, with love, with compassion, with less selfishness, then automatically it will lead to Nirvana.”
“We work really hard. I work harder now than I've ever worked in my life. I didn't finish high school or go to college, but I'm able to make something of myself with music. We party a lot and don't always behave ourselves like model citizens, but at least we're honest, and we're not just doing things because it will get us attention.”

Source : "Jared Swilley of Black Lips". Interview with AVC, music.avclub.com. May 1, 2009.

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