Boris Becker Quotes
I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading.
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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.
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I am always dabbling in new skin routines, but it's always about moisture.
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Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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Biggie has been the logo for success, the logo for doing it big - from popping champagne, the ladies, the fashion.
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There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
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Your family is unavoidable. You cannot escape them or trade them in for another family. You also can't change them... but you can change your response to them.
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The idea of suicide is of a very set narrative, as if killing yourself is a definitive statement. But it can be just as meaningless as throwing a stone in a river.
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The solidarity of all progressive forces of the world towards the people of Vietnam today is similar to the bitter irony of the plebeians coaxing on the gladiators in the Roman arena. It is not a matter of wishing success to the victim of aggression, but of sharing his fate; one must accompany him to his death or to victory.
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'Heathers' was probably the first time when I started to notice that people were opening doors for me and giving me tables at restaurants, regardless of what I was wearing. A whole world opened up to me that was shocking and weird and different, and I enjoyed it, and, you know, I took great advantage of it at times.
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I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading.
