Francesco Totti Quotes
I never thought about money; otherwise, I would have left aged 26 when Real Madrid and Barcelona wanted me.
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Snobbery just inhibits you.
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As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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In order for a man to feel whole, he needs someone to look up to and someone to look up to him.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
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I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
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After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.
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Lo these were they, whose souls the Furies steel'd, And curs'd with hearts unknowing how to yield. Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools, and pageant of a day! So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.
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A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!
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Why not share with the world the way it is and tell them my feelings about my cat, and how I played with my kids, and how addicted to Christmas time I am, and the smell of pine needles and hearing my kids laugh.
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It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
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I never thought about money; otherwise, I would have left aged 26 when Real Madrid and Barcelona wanted me.
