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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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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A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
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Prada Infusion d'Iris perfume - my mother wears it, so it feels like home away from home. It's lovely to smell her scent at all times.
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Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign o terror in the shadow of the guillotine.
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There are people that I didn't like, but I saw them suffer and it changed me. I promised myself that I would never tell a lie, never hurt another human being, and I would try to make the world as positive as I could.
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We live in a world where sort of nothing is shocking anymore.
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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.
