Diego Maradona Quotes
Things are neither clear nor clean in the world of football right now and many people recognise this reality.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many. One thing about our country that is constant is cricket. The smile it brought to people's faces was the thing I shall always remember. It reminded me, reminded all of us, of our importance to the lives of the Indian people less lucky than we are.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects.
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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.
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When you work for something, you appreciate it more. So what are y'all going to do with all the opportunities you inherited that you didn't have to work for?
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I like my customer to be fierce.
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I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for the good or the better or the worse. It must alter him. The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.
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When people are scared, they need something done that will make them feel safe, even if it doesn't truly make them safer. Politicians naturally want to do something in response to crisis, even if that something doesn't make any sense. But unfortunately for politicians, the security measures that work are largely invisible.
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The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' According to most records, old and new, Africans are the oldest people on the face of the earth. The people now called Africans not only influenced the Greeks and the Romans, they influenced the early world before there was a place called Europe.
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Irish people are pragmatic. They understand that nobody is going to fix our problems but ourselves.
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Things are neither clear nor clean in the world of football right now and many people recognise this reality.
