Rafael Nadal
Spanish professional tennis player, 2001–2024
Selfishness and no respect for the others.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I don’t like those people that only want to be nice to people that they consider their equal or above them as far as maybe they’ve got money or something like that.
John Erling, Voices of Oklahoma, 6 September 2019 source ↗
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Ronnie O'Sullivan
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That they think they know it all.
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
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Other people’s decorating, if I feel they’ve missed an opportunity and just decorated in that wet-cardboard, modern-grey thing. That’s a life not properly lived.
People who punch down.
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Number two I’d say to young people, be curious.
When I went through school, I was in a hurry. I was an economics major as an undergraduate, and I was a finance major in graduate school. I was in a hurry to succeed when I got out in the business world. I’m sorry I didn’t take more courses in the humanities and in history and in the arts.
George and I have been there for each other since we were two years old and for most of life's most poignant moments.
In 50 years, I hope to be remembered not just as an industrialist but as someone who believed in the potential of people and worked to leave the world better than he found it.
We have made many investments in our history. Not all have succeeded. As entrepreneurs willing to take some risk, we have made many mistakes. But when we are successful, we leave the company better than we found it.
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