Rafael Nadal Quotes
I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.
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Every sport has its own cast of characters.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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Everything and anything is valuable.
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The Touchables, whether they are vegetarians or flesh-eaters, are united in their objection to eat cow's flesh. As against them stand the Untouchables, who eat cow's flesh without compunction and as a matter of course and habit.
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To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races.
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Your body has space within you that cannot die.
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I received a call from Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum and head coach Eric Mangini. They asked me if I was ready to become a New York Jet. I quickly answered 'yes' and began to hug everyone at the table.
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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.
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Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.
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I'm becoming more of a novelist as I get older. The novel just seems the truer form. There's less artifice involved.
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I think artists need the freedom to fail and I gave myself that freedom.
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It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there.
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
