Johan Cruyff Quotes

Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.

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• Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money away, and then you can live with much more freedom.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • Live
  • Money

• I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Want
  • Way
  • Story

• Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Play
  • Wall
  • Down

• Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Simple

• If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result of an editorial situation - then I need to stop doing it. I would rather not do something than do it badly or ineffectively. It's the only way I can live with myself and do right by the fans in the long haul.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Work
  • Long
  • Live

• I don't want to be held down by genres so much.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Want
  • Down
  • Held

• Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Care
  • Percent

• It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Quality
  • Moment
  • Events

• So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • People
  • Long
  • Energy

• Once Clinton won, I started picking on him.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Him
  • Started
  • Once

• I will not say the fact that there are no European Union observers at an election means that it will not be fair and free.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Free
  • Election
  • Union

• It would not be amiss for the novice to write the last paragraph of his story first, once a synopsis of the plot has been carefully prepared - as it always should be.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Always
  • Story
  • Last

• You know I feel very fortunate that my life has turned out the way that it has - whatever that means - I mean... you know, to say that I would be glad would mean that I planned it.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Life
  • Know
  • My Life

• How long will we keep making films where hero-heroine is dancing around trees?

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Long
  • Hero
  • Dancing

• It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Writing
  • Stupid
  • Inside

• Each of them was intimately aware of the procedure for electing a pope-not only of the antiquated mechanisms, of course, but of the politicking, pressuring, deal-making, bluffing, and outright blackmail that had often accompanied the process over the centuries.

  

  Dan Simmons

• There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Action
  • Sailing

• I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Done
  • Desire

• In 2012, I was invited to a ski event called the Hartford Ski Spectacular to learn how to sit-ski for the first time. I loved it, but it was not pretty - I was not good. I didn't know how to stop, so I kept throwing myself on the ground.

  

  Oksana Masters
  • Time
  • Good
  • Pretty

• This is... the funeral of the Cold War. It marks a profound, historical change.

  

  Jack Straw
  • War
  • Cold
  • Changes

• Dickens had more energy than anyone in the world, and he expected his sons to be like him, and they couldn't be.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • World
  • Energy

• I am a Graham Greene fan - I'm just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time.

  

  Andrea Riseborough
  • Time

• You know, I look at Britney Spears who can't even drive without paparazzi in her face, and if I ever get to that level, which I don't expect, but if it does happen and success does happen to come my way, then I'm going to be prepared.

  

  Alyson Stoner
  • Success

• Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.

  

  Johan Cruyff