Pep Guardiola Quotes
It doesn't mean my footballing ideas are special, different, better than the others. I am not saying it's my football, my ideas, and the other coaches are nothing. It's the way I believe. I'm not special.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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There's so much innovation going on, and there are lots of people funding that innovation, but there's very little innovation on that infrastructure for innovation itself, so we like to do that ourselves to help companies create more tech companies.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.
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I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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Kids, don't be too big to accept advice.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.
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My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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I'm pretty low-key; you'll often find me in jeans, a T-shirt and sweatshirt.
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Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.
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None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
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For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.'
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You will never be indecisive if you know your purpose.
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True intimacy, the exchange of affection between two people who are not lying, is transforming.
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Live life and take chances. Believe that everything happens for a reason and don't regret. Love to the fullest and you will find true happiness in life. Realize that things go wrong and people change, but things do go on. Sometimes things weren't meant to be. What is supposed to happen will work its way out.
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It doesn't mean my footballing ideas are special, different, better than the others. I am not saying it's my football, my ideas, and the other coaches are nothing. It's the way I believe. I'm not special.
