George Best Quotes
It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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I grew up in the indie world, and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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For me, soccer was a dance.
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
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I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.
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Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.
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The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
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South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.
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I never forbid myself anything.
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Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
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The 'Iliad' covered only two months of the great ten-year war with Troy. At least six other epic poems preceded or continued the events in the 'Iliad', but they survive only as fragments.
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Even the most distant and exotic place has its parallel in ordinary life.
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In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, it takes off seven years of your life.
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I am always looking for stories that have not been told too much, and one story that I think is really gripping and important is what police officers go through.
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It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.
