Patrick Rafter Quotes
I'm not that good a player, and I'll be the first to admit that. I might be a three or four grand-slam winner; I might be a two grand-slam winner, I don't know.
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When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.
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Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.
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We must first and foremost defend Hungary's independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'
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If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.
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You have good days and bad days.
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In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.
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The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don't have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.
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I don't really want to make this sound depressing, but I will say that I didn't really have my first kiss until really, really late.
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Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.
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I don't know when I'm going to have time to be politically active.
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But I want to do good work, after this series.
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I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.
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It annoys me a little when people try to be positive when I don't play my best. I play to win. I'm like that. I'm like any other player. I'm never happy.
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I think to compare any time you win a Stanley Cup would be unfair to all the players from all the teams.
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'Castaways' was a play on what if a reality show like 'Survivor' was unknowingly set on an island inhabited by a sub-human race of creatures? Readers have often asked me to consider turning the short story into a full-length novel. So I did.
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Knowledge is true opinion.
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I'm conservative on some issues. I'm progressive on most.
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While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
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I'm not that good a player, and I'll be the first to admit that. I might be a three or four grand-slam winner; I might be a two grand-slam winner, I don't know.
