Stefan Edberg Quotes
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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Role models can inspire. Campaigns can motivate. But if we want all girls everywhere to rise up, then we must find them, befriend them and support them.
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Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up.
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I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.
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I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's lives - it's avoided, because I think people are just afraid of it. There's a standard that women are set to, to try to keep everybody comfortable.
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The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.
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I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.
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When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.
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People want to talk about whether I have rock cred, whether I'm selling out, the theatricality, the gay stuff... Chill out! And just enjoy yourself.
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I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point.
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I'm funny at home too, but not deliberately. My wife is usually laughing at me rather than with me.
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I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.
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Since the traditional recorded-music business models have drastically changed, there is truly diminished income derived from recorded music by artists - both current and catalog. The touring industry has become much more important as a majority revenue stream and the ancillary fan experiences and promotions that may be derived from it.
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I think the way to be an influential journalist is to be accurate and to be fair and to get things right and to really characterize things in an honest way, versus being really snarky or cheerleading.
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The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.
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Perhaps the most difficult task for us to perform is to rely on God’s grace and God’s grace alone for our celebration. It is difficult for our pride to rest on grace. Grace is for other people—for beggars. We don’t want to live by a heavenly welfare system. We want to earn our own way and atone for our own sins. We like to think that we will go to heaven because we deserve to be there.
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There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.
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I'll play as long as I'm still willing to work this much, to do all these sacrifices
