Andy Roddick Quotes
Having two older brothers is a healthy reminder that you're always closer to the bottom than you are to the top.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.
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The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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You go from thinking of yourself as primarily an individual to suddenly being a mother, first and foremost.
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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.
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The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.
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Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
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If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.
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I shall really be very unhappy unless you give me the sort of courage that makes one forget he is afraid.
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The only prerequisites to leadership are that you remain positive, calm, and open-minded.
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In our town, the most popular way out was joining the service. So my three best friends joined the Navy to get out. I didn't.
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The spirit of democracy... requires change of the heart... requires the inculcation of the spirit of brotherhood.
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I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.
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Having two older brothers is a healthy reminder that you're always closer to the bottom than you are to the top.
