Bobby Charlton Quotes
I think now Messi is probably done more than most players. But he is in the same class as Alfredo de Stefano, Johan Cruyff, Pelé. When he finishes and he retires, he will automatically become one of them. A player that people will talk about forever, while the game of football is as good and as popular as it is. He is a sensational player.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.
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Morality in Europe today is herd-morality.
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I don't want to talk about apartheid... I'm going to South Africa to play tennis and to see the country. That's as far as it goes.
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Yves Saint Laurent will never go out of business so long as I'm buying mountains of Touche Eclat.
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Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
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A lot of people think that fame is the Band-Aid that cures their ills. I'm no kid, and I knew long before I got famous that wasn't the deal. I'm the court jester, not the queen.
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I think now Messi is probably done more than most players. But he is in the same class as Alfredo de Stefano, Johan Cruyff, Pelé. When he finishes and he retires, he will automatically become one of them. A player that people will talk about forever, while the game of football is as good and as popular as it is. He is a sensational player.
