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 clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
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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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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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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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I can see quite clearly that if there was a single event that launched me on the road to ultimate involvement at the heart of South African politics, it was an assault on an African woman by her white employer in a kitchen in Fort Hare.
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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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Hard work and making the most of life - that's what makes Georgians great.
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Things are so beautiful and wonderful, you feel there must be another life where you will see more - hear more - and know more. All of it cannot die.
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Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own. ... their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis.
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In the 1980s, there was no category to stick me in. 'He sounds too smart' is what I was hearing. I realized that I had to become a member of the school of what I call 'ugly acting.' Which meant I wanted to do what Dustin Hoffman did very successfully: to play character roles, but lead character roles.
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The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.
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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.
