Andy Roddick Quotes
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
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I have worked really hard on my game, but I think my mother has been a real pillar of strength. She has prayed a lot, sacrificed a lot for me. You know, she hasn't seen me bat so far. When I am batting, she is praying... mothers are like that, aren't they?
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I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones - 'The Crying Game' I loved working on, and then 'Bird,' 'Ghost Dog,' so many films.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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Golf is not easy.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
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That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
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The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. Most of all, when times were toughest, it gave me reason to hope.
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When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.
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Generally, writers have very uninteresting lives.
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There needs to be more deliberate effort on the part of folks at VC firms to bring in a more diverse team of talent. You have to make a more concerted effort to bring in people who are different and who may not be in your network.
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I wasn't expecting to really draw in respected comedians but it's going to happen along the way and I'm truly honored by that.
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The striking thing about 'New Girl' is that under all the comedy, there's something about the emotions and reactions that feels very real - much more real than other sitcoms. Like - maybe everybody is sort of laid bare in different ways.
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Among the worst examples is that of the Alberni Indian Residential School (British Columbia) where, during the 1920s, children caught 'talking Indian' suffered the hideous ordeal of having sewing needles pushed through their tongues.
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In my experience, there are plenty of bad middle-class parents: those who put their own lives and careers before those of their children and make precious little time available for their offspring, preferring instead to hire in childcare and shower them with the latest and most expensive gadgets.
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I'm the most successful bad player ever.
