Gary Speed Quotes
Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
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Teach me to feel another's woe, To right the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
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'No no no! Don't clap! No no no, you make me seem like I'm like a prophet or something and I'm so not!'
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes. Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.
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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
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Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.
