Stan Wawrinka Quotes

When I'm back home, I try to do as little as possible because I want to take time with my family. That's the most important thing.

Stan Wawrinka

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: swiss
  • Birth: March 28, 1985

Topics

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Whether you're writing a horror show or a James Bond film, I think what bubbles beneath is interesting characterization. The colors that emerge through storytelling is what a dramatist does. There's always got to be something bubbling underneath that will erupt at some point.

John Logan

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When you give the government an inch, they take a mile.

Matt Salmon

GovernmentYouTakeGiveInchMile

If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma.

Matthew Desmond

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When turkeys mate they think of swans.

Johnny Carson

ThinkTurkeysMateSwans

People are genuinely excited about taking the country in another direction.

Mitch McConnell

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When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I ever played a concert in Italy. I played a venue that held 900 people, and I think five people showed up. It wasn't a big, 'John Carter of Mars' type failure. It wasn't dramatic; it was just depressing.

Moby

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Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up.

Don Henley

YouSellingWillFirstMessUp

I was president of the show choir, I was kind of a geek, whatever.

Christine Woods

KindChoirPresidentWhateverGeek

I really don't think of myself as a singer. I think of myself as an entertainer, and the best place I do it is onstage.

Cher

MyselfBestThinkPlaceSinger

I always wanted to do a Western.

Pierce Brosnan

AlwaysWantedWestern

There is a kind of sadness in not wanting the things that give so many other people their life's meaning. There can be sadness at not living out a more universal story - the supposed life cycle.

Sheila Heti

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But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips.

Scott Walker

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