Stan Wawrinka Quotes

I grew up surrounded by tennis, so I was obviously more interested in it than football - particularly as it's the most popular sport.

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• In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.

  

  Iain Banks
  • You
  • Politics
  • Disagree

• In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • History
  • Politics

• We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Believe
  • Beauty
  • Appearance

• Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Running
  • Show
  • Agenda

• When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Up
  • Women
  • Growing

• I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Country
  • Real
  • Success

• The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Age
  • Peace
  • Alone

• We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • People
  • Help
  • Need

• I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Live
  • Done
  • Home

• It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Religion
  • Concerned

• Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Pay
  • Curious
  • Empires

• It's an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Women
  • Myself
  • Rock

• There is a certain comfort in waking up and finding that Michael Jackson is still the Big Story. At least it tells you that nothing horrible has happened in the world that would force them to move on to real news.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• Acting is like driving; you can never forget it, and it's in my blood.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Driving
  • Never Forget

• When I had to bury my child, I probably didn't start grieving until a year and a half later.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Child
  • Start
  • Year

• In the 21st century, I think it's fair to say, homosexuality is more accepted in Britain and it's wonderful that my generation has been able to grow up with that.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Up
  • Generation
  • Grow

• Everyone needs a reset button so you can start your day without anxiety. For some people, it's running; for some, it's going to the gym. For me, it's meditation.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • People
  • Running
  • Anxiety

• It feels so good to be happy.

  

  Etta James
  • Happy
  • Feels Good

• To the outside world, of course, this job is a cinch: 9 to 3, five days a week, two months' summer vacation with pay, all legal holidays, prestige and respect. My mother, for example, has the pleasant notion that my day consists of nodding graciously to the rustle of starched curtsies and a chorus of respectful voices bidding me good morning.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Job
  • Vacation
  • Holidays

• I'm fortunate that I've been able to work on Broadway, but it doesn't give me an outside life. So I decided to go into the concert world. I do 40 to 50 shows. That takes one to three days a week, and I'm home the rest of the time.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

  

  George Jean Nathan
  • Life
  • Fool

• Renouncing the worldly pleasures is a comfort for both the human heart and body.

  

  Umar
  • Heart
  • Body
  • Comfort

• I grew up surrounded by tennis, so I was obviously more interested in it than football - particularly as it's the most popular sport.

  

  Stan Wawrinka
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