Roger Federer Quotes
With all the injury problems we have in men's tennis at the moment, I'm happy to still be standing.
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There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
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That's the problem with having a bald head. It exaggerates the shape.
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I think that tennis has been in a place for many years without any change. Davis Cup and Fed Cup has always been a very exciting platform for players because it is such an individual sport, and we get to play a team competition. We love being part of a team.
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'Forrest Gump' is filled full of moments where your heart just cheers.
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Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.
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Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.
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I was at a slight disadvantage in that I had never played in bands or done any performances before, and that's just as important as writing, recording, and putting records out. It's been a lot of hard work, balanced with a lot of pinch-myself moments of touring in crazy parts of the world.
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In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.
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I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abilities. This is a woman who could find an old, discarded piece of furniture, bring it home and turn it into something fabulous.
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I hope to see an integrated solution created to deal with both the local pollution problem and the global climate change problem.
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The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.
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The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
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President Trump has a serious credibility problem. He tries to take credit for jobs he didn't create and, with respect to the F-35 program, savings that were achieved before he even took office.
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Cheap meat is the problem. The answer is to replace meat recipes with vegan meals.
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When we were filming 'The Darkest Hour,' we didn't even know what the aliens were going to look like, we didn't even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when you're just generating them from your own imagination.
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Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone.
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Many young poets, nowadays, are insured against everything. For them poetry is a game like court tennis or squash racquets - one they learned at college - and they play it with propriety, as part of their social and academic existence; their poems are occasional verse for which life itself is only one more occasion.
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If you offer athletes stipends, then you're into pay-for-play, and that's the ballgame. People should realize that, and they should realize that amateurism never has been a sustainable model for a sports-entertainment industry. It wasn't in tennis. It wasn't in the Olympics. And it's not in big-time college sports.
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I'm more in that Rafa Nadal high-energy high-octane mold out there. I wear that emotion on the court. That's how I play my best tennis. People either like that or not. And I can't change that: that's who I am on a tennis court.
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Live performance has always been my thing. It’s my purpose to master and capture the moment every time I have you connected.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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I watched the way they looked at each other. Any idiot could see they were in love, even if they were the only two idiots who couldn't.
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Look, you do everything in stages, right? I don't think everything happens at once. There are so many layers we are constantly chipping away at, down and down and down, closer and closer to what would be the body. I think what happened with cancer, was that I woke up out of nine hours of surgery and I was body. I was just body.
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With all the injury problems we have in men's tennis at the moment, I'm happy to still be standing.
