Jermain Defoe Quotes

I'm a forward, but I can't be the only forward at a club. Over the years, the clubs who've won titles have had several strikers.

Jermain Defoe

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• During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Book
  • Words
  • City

• If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal representation where they are laid, are we not reduced from the character of free subjects to the miserable state of tributary slaves? We claim British rights not by charter only! We are born to them.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Character
  • Free
  • Legal

• If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?

  

  Oliver St. John
  • Queen
  • Flow
  • Bee

• You have to decide who you are going to serve - stockholders or your customers.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • You
  • Going
  • Customers

• I open the doors for everybody all the time.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Time
  • Doors
  • Open

• Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.

  

  Usher
  • People
  • Time
  • Song

• I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • City
  • New
  • New York

• I got a manager, and I thought, since I was going out on auditions, I should do this for a living. Then there was this moment on set when I realized I was having a lot of fun, and I really wanted to do this forever.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Fun
  • Forever
  • Thought

• I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Understand
  • Tea
  • Anger

• I get plenty of, 'Is that song about me?' from men but I just tell them to get over themselves.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Men
  • Song
  • Me

• I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Good
  • Never
  • Mayor

• 'Lord of the Rings' was a childhood favorite, though the adult Rae wishes the women in those books had more significance and agency.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Women
  • Childhood
  • Wishes

• I'm nosey, and I have a great imagination. So it's not necessarily things I have to go through, but it's things people I know or my family is going through, and I hear about it, and I think, 'That sounds like a great song.'

  

  Becky G
  • People
  • Great
  • Family

• I respect marriage, and I think it's beautiful that people do it. But for me, more important than anything is having a peaceful life and a peaceful home.

  

  Camila Alves
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Believe
  • Happy
  • Heaven

• Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Up
  • Something
  • Script

• It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Fun
  • Learn
  • Lovely

• If we're going to reach a broader audience, we have to stop thinking about that audience strictly in terms of teenage boys or even teenage girls. We need to think about things that are relevant to normal humans and not just the geeks we used to be.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Stop

• There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Wise Man

• War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows." He's looking at me now. "And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Men
  • War
  • Devil

• I don't wear sunscreen. I don't have a skincare program.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Program
  • Wear
  • Sunscreen

• At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn't look like a city at all. The trees out-number the houses. And that's completely typical of Seattle. You can't quite tell: is it a city, is it a suburb, is the forest growing back?

  

  Jonathan Raban
  • Night
  • Growing
  • City

• He just got his stick up and it kind of caught me. I've never lost a tooth, so it's a little bad like that, but I got it fixed up and got it done.

  

  Eric Staal
  • Fixed
  • Tooth
  • Stick Up

• I'm a forward, but I can't be the only forward at a club. Over the years, the clubs who've won titles have had several strikers.

  

  Jermain Defoe