Boris Becker Quotes
I don't really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I'm not going to start now.Boris Becker
Quotes to Explore
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This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
Aaron Klug -
Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.
Patrick Chan -
Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
R. L. Stine -
To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
Victor Hugo -
The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person.
Lafcadio Hearn
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I really wanted to be a cartoonist, and I was in 4th or 5th grade and I would bring my drawings in, and I'd look around, and everyone could draw better than me. Everyone. My drawings were just awful. So that's why I had to write.
R. L. Stine -
Why are women always described as 'desperate,' while men are just... irrational?
Parker Posey -
I used to dress like an eight-year-old boy. Traveling has inspired me to be more experimental.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.
Abraham Lincoln -
You should see me during an action film. I look like an abuse victim.
Maggie Q -
I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write.
Sam Shepard
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In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage.
Vikram Seth -
I try and make it possible for beginners to start training MMA and not be scared of it as a sport. I try to actually give them the skill set that is necessary - to feel comfortable, maybe not on a big level. And not just Russia, but worldwide.
Fedor Emelianenko -
While it is often true that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, it seems like Yahoo's almost obsessive focus on Google is taking away from its other businesses.
Kara Swisher -
Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever.
Patricia Clarkson -
To be understood is to prostitute yourself.
Fernando Pessoa -
As a Christian, Israel has a very special place in my heart. There's no question about that. I grew up with a Bible, and the back of the Bible has all these pictures of Israel in it. And so all these locations are incredibly significant to me personally in my faith.
James Lankford
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She is a beautiful creature, but beauty doesn't equal good and it certainly doesn't equal sane.
Carrie Jones -
When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
Jack White The White Stripes -
There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism.
Jesse Jackson -
You ask an algorithm “What aren’t black women talking about” and it tells you “tanning,” you know you did something right.
Christian Rudder -
I don't really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I'm not going to start now.
Boris Becker