Roger Federer Quotes
With all the injury problems we have in men's tennis at the moment, I'm happy to still be standing.
Quotes to Explore
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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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My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.
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I take the work seriously. Which is why I always swing for the fences whenever I voice a character. But that said, I don't take myself all that seriously.
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Strange priests are they who never straightly walk But all aslant through sideways passage stalk Who never seek their goals in forward lines But move askew as fraught with sly designs
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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.
