Roger Federer Quotes
Seriously. I'm not playing to prove anything to journalists. I'm playing for myself, for my fans,to make people happy.
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
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I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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I'm a real girly-girl.
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I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.
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I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.
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I love Madrid.
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Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.
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Hate is a very strong and heavy emotion, probably as strong as love. I don't think I can live with hatred. If something bad happens, you feel bad about it; you forgive and move on. There's no hatred.
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At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.
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My mother has all my awards, because if I walked downstairs every day and saw all my achievements it would be so easy to become complacent.
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Frank Zappa was one of the gods of the Czech underground, I thought of him as a friend. Whenever I feel like escaping from the world of the Presidency, I think of him.
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When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part.
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I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.
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I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.
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I'm not going to say I'll never rock with a band, because I'm too much of a fan of the aesthetic of a great band. But a girl group? Not again.
