Boris Becker Quotes
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.
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In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.
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At first, because this genre of music was so urban, sometimes we would sing songs that were so aggressive. And my parents didn't like it. They would break my cassettes and say, 'That music is garbage.'
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I've never seen anyone - and I've had the opportunity to work with some really terrific actors in my time - but Philip Seymour Hoffman is definitely the best I ever had the opportunity to work with.
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I can afford to say what I wish.
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Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.
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Each week I try to have three lunches with my children, one working lunch, and one lunch with mates.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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When people make donations to non profits, they want to know that their money goes to good use.
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When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'
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It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.
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I'm looking for things where, like with 'Ten,' I don't look like me, and I'm playing something a bit different. I'm just trying to flex a different muscle and see if it works. I've saved the world and killed monsters and done all that. Now I want to try something a bit different and a bit more challenging.
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I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.
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The missiles come first, and the justifications come second.
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There are many, many communities, many ethnic minorities, many civilizations that have been brutalised by others and you have to move on. You cannot perpetually stay in that place of blame, otherwise it's just a downward spiral.
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I am defining leadership in terms of the role, not the position.
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I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts.
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Definitely you have to be able to handle pressure and shake off any mistake and I kind of didn't do that tonight. I let that first mistake creep in. I have to be tougher.
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For a year, I had all sorts of weirdos coming on to me.
