Allan Border Quotes
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.
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I'm not as tech savvy as some YouTubers, but I'm a lot better than my grandparents. Whenever I have a technical question, or something isn't working, I ask Google, and that usually throws up the answer.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.
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Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.
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I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.
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I'm shocked at being recognized.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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Traditionally, with a DJ set, you just go hear DJ that has a good reputation and let the DJ take you somewhere. It was up to the DJ what he wanted to play. Typically in dance music, people didn't know most of the songs a DJ played.
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The Federal Reserve can only buy Treasuries and agencies, and moreover quantitative easing typically involves buying longer-term Treasuries and agencies in terms of bills, for example.
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We want people to be as up to date as possible.
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OK, go away, and I'll find someone who really wants to play for Australia.
