Roger Federer Quotes

What I think I've been able to do well over the years is play with pain, play with problems, play in all sorts of conditions.

Roger Federer

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• You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally.

  

  Ian Allison
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• The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.

  

  Vince Cable
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• We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.

  

  D. B. Weiss
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• It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
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• Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.

  

  Basil Rathbone
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• If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.

  

  Oliver Kahn
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  • Try

• You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
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• The thing about Wagner is we're always wrong about him, because he always embraces opposites. There are things in his operas which viewed one way are naturalistic, and viewed another way are symbolic, but the problem is you can't represent both views on stage at once.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
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• Bangalore now wants a person who doesn't only play politics. Bangalore needs a problem solver, and I am a problem solver. I will be the bridge between Bangalore and the Centre.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Problem
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• This would not be a problem if I were driving a snowplow.

  

  Aaron Allston
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  • Were

• For the purposes of the play, it was perfect to be able to use that and the stresses and strains that there were. At the end of the play, the mother realizes the terrible things she had done.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Mother
  • Perfect
  • Play

• I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project.

  

  Tatyana Ali
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• I can still take the hits; it's not a problem for me. I accept the blows. I can take the punches like a boxer.

  

  Eden Hazard
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• I'm not very good at going to sleep, and that's probably my worst problem. I don't need much more than seven and a half hours, but I probably get six. I take all my problems to bed with me and fret. I can't switch off.

  

  Harriet Walter
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  • Sleep

• I started playing violin in the 5th grade. They had a program in school where you could get out of class to go play instruments. So I raised my hand, left out of class, me and a bunch of my homeboys, just to get out of class for that day. They asked what instrument you wanted to play and I picked the violin.

  

  J. Cole
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• My mom played every sport possible. My dad is 'extremely' competitive. You can't even play Ping-Pong with him.

  

  Kate Upton
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• It used to be if you wanted something nice to wear, you would sew it yourself for your body type. Women before the 20th century didn't have this problem. Now, it seems we're all squeezed into random designs. They're designed for no one.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Women
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  • Problem

• We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Money
  • America
  • Problem

• Behold great Whitman, whose licentious line Delights the rake, and warms the souls of swine; Whose fever'd fancy shuns the measur'd pace, And copies Ovid's filth without his grace. In his rough brain a genius might have grown, Had he not sought to play the brute alone; But void of shame, he let his wit run wild, And liv'd and wrote as Adam's bestial child.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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• Even my mom is calling me Shaggy now, which is weird, because Shaggy is more like a character that I play.

  

  Shaggy
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  • Mom

• Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended up hating them.

  

  D.T. Max
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  • Good
  • Work

• What I think I've been able to do well over the years is play with pain, play with problems, play in all sorts of conditions.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Play
  • Problem
  • Pain