Boris Becker Quotes
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I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4", and every heel I have is four inches or more.
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Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
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I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.
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I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy.
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I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.
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It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.
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There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector
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One day in '61, I was looking in the Santa Monica phone book for a number, and there it was: Stan Laurel, Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica. I went over there and spent the afternoon with them. And pumped him with questions. I must have driven him crazy. I spent a lot of happy hours at Stan's house on Sundays just talking about comedy.
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Château and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village well-thousands of acres of land-a whole province of France-all France itself-lay under the night sky, concentrated into a faint hairbreadth line. So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star.
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All you can do is all you can do, but all you can do is enough.
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I actually believe that some residue of discrimination would lessen, because it's my view that there is a certain percentage of the white population that stereotypes and makes assumptions about African Americans because they don't inject the history of slavery and Jim Crow into current incarceration rates, or crime rates, or poverty rates, or what have you.
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I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.
