Lleyton Hewitt Quotes
When I was a kid in Adelaide, I dreamed of becoming No. 1 in the world, winning a grand slam and the Davis Cup for Australia.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
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We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
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I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.
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If they can go out and buy my albums, I can at least make the sacrifice to holler at the few people who call. A lot of times I'm busy so they'll get my voice mail. And if I can speak to them and I have time, I always text back. Because I think that's very important.
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Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
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Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
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Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
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Faith Hill is a big role model.
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My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.
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I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.
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I'm the only gay person my parents know.
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I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.
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Where the bright seraphim in burning rowTheir loud uplifted angel trumpets blow.
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Making movies is really hard. It's a very complex process, with many, many variables.
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As a young girl, there are pressures that come with any career, but I decided when I got into this I didn't want to be perfect.
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I've seen kids turn their lives around. It's usually a kid who's outside of the team-sport world, or maybe has a darker personality or doesn't fit in. Skateboarding ends up being something they latch onto. It sounds hokey, but finding a focus on something - whether it's skateboard or playing your guitar - can be life changing.
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Today, we are shapers of the world of tomorrow. That is plain truth. There is no way we can duck the responsibility, and there is no reason why we should.
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When I was a kid in Adelaide, I dreamed of becoming No. 1 in the world, winning a grand slam and the Davis Cup for Australia.
