George Best Quotes

One reason I don't want to play in England again is because we don't have any personalities.

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• In a typically contradictory move, globalisation, while promoting economic integration among elites, has exacerbated sectarianism everywhere else.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Economic
  • Move
  • Integration

• With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • World
  • Man
  • Humanity

• I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Think
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• When kids look at broccoli, they call it 'little trees,' because they see it not just for the word 'broccoli.' They see it for what it looks like, the image. We, as adults, forget to think like that. We forget to think figuratively and have to be reminded.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Forget

• My blood runs cold when I hear the 'great news' that we have found a marker for the Down's syndrome gene, which means we can identify it more easily. Why is that good news? It's only good news if you're going to terminate.

  

  Sally Phillips
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• Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we've never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • Work
  • Job
  • War

• The xx do not condone guns!

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Guns
  • Condone

• I'm not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Artists
  • Interested

• Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard?

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Women
  • Party
  • Conservative

• Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.

  

  Rachel Ward
  • Creative
  • Process
  • Very

• A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • House
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• If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • You
  • Find

• It's a funny thing when you know someone and you meet their siblings - you get so much a sense of who they are because when you can recognize similar traits in the family, you understand exactly why they are the way they are.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Family
  • Why
  • Funny

• There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Always
  • Slow
  • Partying

• I get the best inspiration or the most creativity from real emotions.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Inspiration
  • Creativity
  • Emotions

• It seemed, at least, that they had not taught the boy to lie. But they had not taught him to know truth from lies.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Truth
  • Boy
  • Lies

• You must take it; I cannot live with anything in my possession that is not mine.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Live

• You have to be let alone to really accomplish anything.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Alone

• It is important for me to tell my story so that others feel comfortable telling theirs.

  

  Anzia Yezierska
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  • Feel
  • Comfortable

• I have lived a life that has been beautiful and painful at some moments. But I am convinced others can learn how to control a certain kind of rage that bubbles up in many Americans, particularly, but not limited to, women, blacks, and other minorities.

  

  Jayson Blair
  • Life
  • Up
  • Women

• History tells us that revolution is not an isolated event because it is not about overthrowing governments, it is about spreading new ideas.

  

  Colin Falconer
  • History
  • Ideas
  • Revolution

• A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be. That is his punishment. Those who want a mask have to wear it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Successful

• One reason I don't want to play in England again is because we don't have any personalities.

  

  George Best