Johan Cruyff Quotes
When I don't have control of the ball, what do I do? I press to get it back. It's a way of defending.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
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My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.
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What, after all, is the narrative of 'the American Dream?' It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in the United States during the great waves of migration and expansion and reforms of the Progressive Era.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.
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Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.
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My goal is to always be improving my skills.
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The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
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I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.
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Knowledge is death in my experience. The more I know about film, the harder it is to create freely.
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I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.
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Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.
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Mountaineering is a complex and unique way of life, interweaving elements of sport, art and mysticism. Success or failure depends on the ebb and flow of immense inspiration. Detecting a single rule governing this energy is difficult - it arises and vanishes like the urge to dance and remains as mysterious as the phenomenon of life itself.
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When I don't have control of the ball, what do I do? I press to get it back. It's a way of defending.
