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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Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.
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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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Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.
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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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An iron lung looks like an enormous metal coffin or a 19th-century rocket ship: only its occupant's head is left outside, a tight seal around the neck.
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For he who gives no fuel to fire puts it out, and likewise he who does not in the beginning nurse his wrath and does not puff himself up with anger takes precautions against it and destroys it.
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The environment is rarely put on tape, or if it is, it's so abstract that most people never realize it. They just don't know what it means. But if you can show it to them, then that's what becomes the main instrument.
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We Americans can be rightly proud of the fact that the right to the free and unfettered exercise of religion is a primary principle in the vision and founding of our country. It defines us as a people, and has uniquely contributed to making this nation great.
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If you get hold of a head of hair on somebody you've never seen before, cut beautiful shapes, cut beautiful architectural angles and she walks out looking so different - I think that's masterful.
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For a year, I had all sorts of weirdos coming on to me.
