Patrick Rafter Quotes

I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.

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• What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • God
  • Everything
  • Himself

• No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Family
  • Law
  • Problem

• Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Actor
  • Comfort
  • Director

• The Arab Spring, nobody's in the streets demonstrating for radical Islam; they're in the streets with a window of democracy. They want our political reform, our social justice, and our economic opportunity.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Political
  • Opportunity
  • Justice

• Going to the Super Bowl is not the reward. It's playing really well and winning.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Winning
  • Reward
  • Super Bowl

• I want any kid who listens to my music to see that I am confident with all elements of my personality that I can't change.

  

  Halsey
  • Music
  • Change
  • Personality

• I'm the type of girl who's always had to buy jeans in three sizes because I never know what my body is going to do from one day to the next.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Girl
  • Day
  • Body

• I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Money
  • Education
  • Programs

• It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Trying
  • Days
  • Ironic

• I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Age
  • Working
  • Lucky

• In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Together
  • Political

• Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Good
  • Work
  • Influence

• I used to joke that I came to England - not to the U.S. where most Koreans go - because I like Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • England
  • Go
  • Joke

• It was never about winning medals or being famous.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Never
  • Winning
  • Famous

• World-building is my favorite pastime, so with me, I'm always about reining myself in. I don't want to lose too much of the mystery by hammering every detail to death. I did fiddle with lots of maps for 'Glass Sword,' as the second installment sees Mare, Cal and company traveling throughout their country, and that's always fun for me.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • World
  • Country
  • Fun

• I'm doing naughty things, I'm drinking too much, I'm going to clubs. It really didn't matter to me, other than the fact that some parents wouldn't let their kids hang out with me.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Matter

• There are great challenges before you, from the overwhelming nature of climate change to the unfairness of an economy that excludes so many from our collective wealth, and the changes necessary to build a more inclusive and generous Canada. I believe in you.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Nature

• I was a horrible athlete.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Athlete
  • Horrible

• Two is not a winner, and three nobody remembers. What does it take to be number one?

  

  Nelly
  • Art
  • Remember
  • Doe

• I tried to enjoy it and just make it happen. It's a really fun program, playful. It's about getting involved with the audience -- the judges and spectators. I enjoy the performance part.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Fun
  • Enjoy
  • Happen

• When writing about historical characters I try to be as accurate as possible, and in particular not to misrepresent the view they held. With a real historical figure you have to be fair, and this is not an obligation you have in dealing with your own creations, so it is quite different.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Real

• Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us over the head with the “thou shalts” and “thou should”, but rather a recovery of the real ambiguity of being and an ability to see ourselves as at once powerful and weak, noble and ignoble, future-oriented, past-facing.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Real
  • Powerful
  • Lying

• The way football has evolved in some of the bigger leagues in the world, you'd have to say there has become a bigger distance between the contact that you have, for everybody really. It's quite refreshing actually to experience something as simplistic as enjoying winning a game, and the players and the fans being together.

  

  Nigel Pearson
  • Football
  • Winning
  • Enjoying

• I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.

  

  Patrick Rafter
  • Going
  • Happen
  • Winner