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• I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.

  Amy Grant

  Choices, Not Good Enough, Made

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• Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.

  Mary Oliver

  Conscious, Walks, Unconscious

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• Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Men, Attention

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• I feel that the work that I have done in the comedy arena, is priceless in terms of what I learned, timing, everything that these incredibly talented performers were generous enough in teaching me.

  Khandi Alexander

  Teaching, Done, Comedy

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• So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Courage, Badass, Military

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom.

  Andy Summers

  Play, Police, Doe

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• I'm happy with the Arena Football League right now. I'm happy in Denver.

  John Elway

  Sports, Football, League

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• I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Politics, Morality, Interest

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• I'm not crazy about arenas just because I can sell them out. It doesn't do anything for my ego at all. I want to play places where people don't have to sit in the nosebleed seats and wonder what the hell is going on.

  Whitney Houston

  Crazy, Play, People

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• I've turned down a lot of arena dates because I've done the big-arena thing. Now, I want to do something where people can feel me and I can feel them.

  Whitney Houston

  People, Done, Want

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• The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

  Emma Goldman

  Political, Alternatives, Politics

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.36, 谷月社

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• Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Positive, Sexy, Different Faces

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• I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

  Francesca Annis

  Work, Home, Views

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• Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing.

  Julie Andrews

  Singing, Broadway, Tough

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• I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, World, Morality

  Interview with Klaus Ottmann, www.jca-online.com. October 1986.

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• I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Zero, Book

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• The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena.

  Stockwell Day

  Political, Mindset, Court

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• Work hard at work worth doing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Work, Day Jobs, Labor Day

  Theodore Roosevelt (1967). “Writings”

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• One of the greatest handicaps is to fear a mistake. You have stopped yourself. You have to move freely into the arena, not just to wait for the perfect situation, the perfect moment... If you have to make a mistake, it's better to make a mistake of action than one of inaction. If I had the opportunity again, I would take chances.

  Federico Fellini

  Motivational, Mistake, Moving

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• It's been three years since I last performed here so I'm dying to tear the roof off Wembley Arena with some old school joints and brand new bangers. When I'm done, you're gonna remember it for a long time to come.

  Busta Rhymes

  School, Years, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My time in the arena made me realize how I needed to stop punishing [my mother] for something she couldn't help, specifically the crushing depression she fell into after my father's death. Because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

  Suzanne Collins

  Crush, Mother, Father

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.31, Scholastic Inc.

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• It's lovely. If only you could frost someone to death." "Don't be so superior. You can never tell what you will find in the arena. Say it's a gigantic cake-

  Suzanne Collins

  Cake, Lovely, Frost

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.91, Scholastic Inc.

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• A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.

  Rex Stout

  Men, Library, May

  Rex Stout (2010). “The League of Frightened Men”, p.22, Bantam

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• When we make our art a practice, when we make our workspace sacred and enter it daily with respect and high intention, then we elevate our actions (even if they're taking place within the profane arena of commerce) beyond ego and above gimme-gimme ambition.

  Steven Pressfield

  Art, Ambition, Practice

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• Strengthening the role the United Nations can play...will require serious examination of the need to extend into the international arena the rule of law and the principle of taxation to finance agreed actions which provide the basis for governance at the national level. But this will not come about easily. Resistance to such changes is deeply entrenched. They will come about not through the embrace of full blown world government, but as a careful and pragmatic response to compelling imperatives and the inadequacies of alternatives.

  Maurice Strong

  Law, Play, World Government

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