Boris Becker Quotes
I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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I adored my mom. I thought she was the best. I loved her very much.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you're the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owners seem so touchy; they feel, at some level, like criminals in waiting.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
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Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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I fight because I like challenges.
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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.
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I am happy in Paris.
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We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
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Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious.
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Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
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My stepdad is a Patriots fan, so I've become a Pats fan, too.
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One is most dishonest to one's god: he is not allowed to sin.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies.
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When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.
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Teens are by nature, experimental learners. There is no real understanding of biology without the lab.
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I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble.
