Victoria Azarenka Quotes
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I don't think even one per cent of the people in this world explore more than 10 per cent of all that this world has to offer. That's a shame!
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.
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I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.
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I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.
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The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street, but the school district I was in included some fine neighborhoods - so I got to know a couple of the kids from those places and went to their houses and experienced such culture shock.
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.
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To give the monopoly of the home-market to the produce of domestic industry, in any particular art or manufacture, is in some measure to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, and must, in almost all cases, be either a useless or a hurtful regulation.
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You cannot be in pretend for people to like you.
