Titles Quotes - Page 28

• It means everything, definitely. I mean, it's Wimbledon. Tennis here is tennis history. Centre Court is always great to play on. I really feel like I'm at home. I was really up and down after my title here in 2011, but I still worked hard and believed in myself, and my team believed in me as well.

  Petra Kvitova

  Team, Mean, Home

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• It's not my goal, definitely. I mean, I don't think it's something I can really achieve. Definitely she's a great champion - she has nine titles. But it's nice to see her in the locker room, and she's smiling and she's happy for me. She's really cheering for me. It's nice to have someone like her.

  Petra Kvitova

  Cheer, Nice, Mean

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• For years I walked around with the phrase "Green River" because I had seen that on a soda fountain drink when I was probably 8 or 9 years old, and I went, 'Gee, I like that.' Another one was "Lodi", which I thought sounded really cool. I got this cheap little empty plastic notebook at my local drugstore, and bought a little slab of filler paper and the very first title I wrote in it was "Proud Mary". I had no idea what that title meant.

  John Fogerty

  Notebook, Years, Ideas

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• I think it was Tommy who told me, 'When your song is called 'XYZ' or whatever, every line has got to make sense against your title.' He showed me little methods of proving to yourself whether the line belongs, and ways of finding out whether you were able to get more out of a line if you tried.

  Merle Haggard

  Song, Thinking, Littles

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• I am commonly opposed to those who modestly assume the rank of champions of liberty, and make a very patriotic noise about the people. It is the stale artifice which has duped the world a thousand times, and yet, though detected, it is still successful. I love liberty as well as anybody. I am proud of it, as the true title of our people to distinction above others; but . . . I would guard it by making the laws strong enough to protect it.

  Fisher Ames

  Strong, Patriotic, Successful

  Fisher Ames, John Thornton Kirkland (1969). “Works of Fisher Ames: Memoir, by J. T. Kirkland. Letters”

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• I liked that title. I didn't want to lose it to anybody, but if I had to lose it, I'm glad I lost it to you. You're a good fighter and gonna be a great champ.

  Jersey Joe Walcott

  Boxing, Want, Fighter

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• I have the world heavyweight title not because it was 'given' to me, not because of my race or religion, but because I won it in the ring through my own boxing ability.

  Muhammad Ali

  Race, Boxing, Heavyweights

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• I made the most of my ability and I did my best with my title.

  Joe Louis

  Boxing, Fighter, Made

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• Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.

  Jack Dempsey

  Funny, Morning, Boxing

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• The real debate isn't over National League MVP, but over which of Barry Bonds' seasons should be considered his finest. There's 2001, when he hit his record seventy-three home runs. There's 2002, when he hit .370 and won his first batting title. And now there's 2004, when the San Francisco Giants slugger is preparing to shatter his season record for on-base percentage, hitting for nearly as high an average as Ichiro and missing fewer pitches than ever.

  Ken Rosenthal

  Running, Real, Home

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• Exotic names, robes, insignia of office, titles - the trappings of religion - confuse as much as they help. They endorse the assumption of the existence of an elite whose explicit commitment grants them implicit extraordinariness.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Commitment, Names, Office

  Stephen Batchelor (1998). “Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening”, p.42, Penguin

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• The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title

  Gene Tierney

  Jobs, Actresses, Description

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's statecraft.) Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory containing listings for all the organizations with titles beginning with the word National.

  George Will

  Reading, Organization, Government

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• I felt like a fighter who was training for a title bout that had not been booked yet.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Training, Fighter, Felt

  "RD3". Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. April 16, 2013.

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• I've always enjoyed stories that take place in the future but my one disappointment was that the future books described never came. We're not on other planets, there are no flying cars, and the only robots we have in our homes just sweep the floor. So I wanted to write about a future that I thought could really happen. People ask me when I tell them the title of the book, 'Are we all dead?' The good news is, no. We're still here. And I even think the future in my book is strangely hopeful, although I'm sure there will be people who strongly disagree.

  Albert Brooks

  Disappointment, Book, Home

  "Albert Brooks Wrote a Novel About The Future. He’s A Comedian. It’s Kind Of Funny. But Also: Good" by Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2011.

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• Our eyes are not viewers, they're also projectors that are running a second story over the picture that we see in front of us all the time. Fear is writing that script, and the working title is 'I'll never be enough'

  Jim Carrey

  Running, Writing, Eye

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• I have a Web site that parents and girls can use to learn about Title IX and take action if they find their school is not in compliance. Thirty years after Title IX passed, 80 percent of schools are not in compliance.

  Geena Davis

  Girl, School, Years

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• I kept the same suit for six years and the same dialogue. They just changed the title of the picture and the leading lady.

  Robert Mitchum

  Years, Suits, Six

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• What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title — whether it's 'black actor,' a 'gay actor' or 'anything actor,' Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from. Equality comes from treating everybody the same regardless of who they are. I hope the media and the press catches on to that because it's time to move out of 1992.

  Matt Bomer

  Jobs, Moving, Gay

  "Magic Mike's Matt Bomer Talks About Being Out as Gay: What Brought Him to Tears?" by Mark Malkin, www.eonline.com. June 25, 2012.

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• Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around.

  Calista Flockhart

  Derivatives, Compliment, Divine

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• The grand old lady of bluegrass? Well, wouldn't that be a wonderful title to have? I hope I do enough to earn it some day

  Alison Krauss

  Wonderful, Enough, Old Lady

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• If I were to write my title like going through the airport and you have to put down what you do? I would literally write ‘creative genius’.

  Kanye West

  Writing, Airports, Two

  "Kanye West responds to Obama criticism" by Ben Beaumont-Thomas, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2013.

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• The adidas +Challenge is a really cool opportunity for kids here in Los Angeles and across the country to get excited for the FIFA World Cup this summer. As a big fan of soccer, Im looking forward to seeing the 32 youth teams compete for the title of Team USA and represent our country at the global finals in Berlin.

  Luke Wilson

  Summer, Soccer, Country

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• The title of a song is like the wrapping on a present.

  Billy Corgan

  Song, Wrapping

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• My most important title is still “mom-in-chief.

  Michel'le

  Mom, Important, Chiefs

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