Roger Federer Quotes
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.
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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.
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The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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I had an idea when I was 18 or 19 to start tutoring people, like the way that people get tutored in saxophone or guitar, but for production. I really enjoyed it, but I don't have time for that any more.
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Religion and practical life are not different. To take sanyas (renunciation) is not to abandon life. The real spirit is to make the country, your family, work together instead of working only for your own. The step beyond is to serve humanity and the next step is to serve God.
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The proposition, that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties, is not true; they are the worst conceivable; they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.
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I am confident that partnering my Dollywood Company with a great company like Gaylord will create something truly special.
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Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed onto mankind.
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If I have a problem, it is this: there is a store where everything costs a dollar.
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There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it.
