Pele Quotes
You must respect people and work hard to be in shape. And I used to train very hard. When the others players went to the beach after training, I was there kicking the ball.
Quotes to Explore
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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Every child deserves to grow up knowing their potential and feeling confident that they won't fall at the first hurdle - that they cope with life's setbacks.
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Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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I have to always remember, writing is really hard.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.
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One of my fondest memories from childhood is of looking at a globe with my father. "What's the biggest country?" he'd ask me and my sister. We'd spin the globe around and guess. . . . The globe brought me a sense of wonder and adventure. I wanted to go to those other places and see how people did things differently. And, many years later, when I did visit other countries, I took my father's interest and fascination with me. When we plant the seeds of fascination and respect for other people, we are teaching tolerance and peace.
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We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.
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You must respect people and work hard to be in shape. And I used to train very hard. When the others players went to the beach after training, I was there kicking the ball.
