Roger Federer Quotes
My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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How lucky am I?
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If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.
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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.
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I've been to London twice. I saw the Broadway show 'Billy Elliot' there - phenomenal. I was crying through the entire thing.
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India will have to hang down her head in shame if even one person is left who is said in any way to be untouchable.
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If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.
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Some growths can be detected early, making for increased accuracy in diagnosis. Some can be cured and others controlled.
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Detention without trial is history in Malaysia.
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On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.
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Subject matter is sort of overemphasized in the way books get discussed, I think.
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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
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I think rock 'n' roll would become exponentially, considerably more difficult to perform past about 65.
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Texans don't want to sit back and watch Austin turn into Washington, D.C. State leaders in power keep forcing people to opposite corners to prepare for a fight instead of coming together to get things done.
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I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?
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Literature has become too psychological.
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When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don't know why.
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I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to.
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I've never been an outward rebel, but inside, I just rebel deeply.
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I had a lot of anger because I wasn't happy with the way I had been raised.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.
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My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.
