Roger Federer Quotes
Obviously, matches and all that stuff takes its toll on your body and so forth. But as you get sort of a bit older, a bit wiser, and a bit more experienced, you know also how to handle it.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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It's been a long slog back, and we've still got a long way to go.
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On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.
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The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.
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For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.
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Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
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During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.
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There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do your best. I think men are much better at compartmentalising.
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Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way.
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It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.
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I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from who you are as a person.
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I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician.
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I am writing a book more improbable than 'The Interrogative Mood' that I call 'Manifesto'. It's two guys talking who speak artificially conveniently.
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The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.
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I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.
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I think the more yellows, the more lights, the better. It alerts everybody. I mean, I guess I'm always a little bit afraid when the yellow comes out, we all get out of it, that someone won't notice it, pile into the back of you.
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The first rule of all air combat is to see the opponent first. Like the hunter who stalks his prey and maneuvers himself unnoticed into the most favourable position for the kill, the fighter in the opening of a dogfight must detect the opponent as early as possible in order to attain a superior position for the attack.
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Without a revolution of the inner life, however slow, all our big designs are worthless. The work we have to do is with ourselves if we're ever going to be at peace with each other...the good that flows from it will shape our societies in an unprogrammed, unforeseen way, under the control of no single group of people or set of ideas.
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When I photograph someone, I want to shoot the subject and get them out of my studio so I can play with the photos and do all the stuff I want.
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Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.
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I suppose we acquire most of our feelings about our bodies too early, and in ways too complicated, to make them easy to account for.
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Obviously, matches and all that stuff takes its toll on your body and so forth. But as you get sort of a bit older, a bit wiser, and a bit more experienced, you know also how to handle it.
