John W. Gardner Quotes
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The directors told me they were going to recruit good players with whom I could play decent football. Marko Marin, Oscar and me, we like to have the ball at our feet. Juan Mata likes the ball; so does Ramires.
Eden Hazard -
I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe -
My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
Aaron Diehl -
I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
Magnus Larsson -
You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
Ilana Glazer
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
Vijay Sethupathi -
I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
Ian Mckellen -
Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
Carlo Ratti -
I love the early films of Al Pacino - 'Scarface,' 'Serpico' - and I love many science-fiction films.
Ornella Muti -
Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.
Naveen Jain -
'Limbo' has been one of the greatest hits of my career. A great response all over the world, not just Latinos but people in Europe and America.
Daddy Yankee
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
Patricia Velasquez -
Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
Ice T -
You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
Viggo Mortensen -
China may censor YouTube. China may censor Twitter. They won't be able to censor Bitcoin. There's no central authority. There's no one you can go to and say, 'We're going to turn Bitcoin off.'
Naval Ravikant -
Growing up in Australia, space exploration wasn't something I was too aware of.
Yvonne Strahovski -
There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.
Caity Lotz
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My mother persevered through much adversity because she possessed faith in God, self-respect, and an awareness of history; most especially, she was astute in Africa's significant contribution to world history. Sister Betty refused to live her life as a victim.
Ilyasah Shabazz -
The history of economic progress consists of charging a fee for what once was free.
B. Joseph Pine II -
Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.
Karen Salmansohn -
It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.
James Patterson -
History never looks like history when you are living through it.
John W. Gardner