Andy Roddick Quotes
I enjoy hitting tennis balls. I haven't lost any of the innocent parts of tennis. I just do it in front of less people.
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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The power should be in individual democracies in individual communities. It shouldn't be an oligarchy or some small group of elite. Power should be with the people and not with some politician or some heir to the throne or some madman.
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I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.
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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
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I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?
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Leadership is a choice. It's the choice not to do nothing.
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Basically, I think some of the weight helped take some of the walls down in reality, so basically I got a little more confident. I'm definitely not super confident, but I am confident that I don't have to hide behind those layers of fat and that I can actually open up to people a little more.
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Breaking the world record has always been in the works. I just need the right conditions and I can make it.
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I enjoy hitting tennis balls. I haven't lost any of the innocent parts of tennis. I just do it in front of less people.
