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"You know, I'm confident before I go out and play a match that I know, you know, I've put in the work and like I feel confident that I am going to go out there and play well."
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"Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways."
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"Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity."
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"I'm happy with what I've done but it's a challenge to try to win more."
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"I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that."
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"To win Grand Slams you have to be in the right frame of mind, the right physical shape."
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"I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind."
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"I do still have some of the experience from playing, but it's been so long since I've been out in those quarters, semis, finals, the important final matches, just against the top players."
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"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole."
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"Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks."
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"Good schools underpin not only our economy, but the social fabric of our lives."
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"Healthy disagreement, debate, leading to compromise has always been the American way."
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"My message tonight is a simple one - the journey is getting exciting and this great state is on the move."
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"The place of exciting innovation - where the action is - that's Rhode Island!"
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"The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service."
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"We are already too dependent on gambling revenue. If we continue, we will soon be owned by them."
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"Victory is the only option. And we will be victorious in Iraq."
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"There are over 100 entities in the federal government that have something to do with homeland security."
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"Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter."
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"Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers."
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"She's leaving when the president has one of the highest approval ratings on record. From here, it can only go down. And when it does, you know who they're going to blame. They're gonna blame Andy Card!"
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"You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate."
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"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."
Work,
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"The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe."
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"The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you."
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"Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden."
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"Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going."
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