Xabi Alonso Quotes
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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I think I'm a bit odd.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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I like to show that I'm real.
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When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.
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I never got to make that transition from little girl to young woman... and that really screws you up.
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If you want to go beyond that small percentage of people who are already environmentally and scientifically aware, you have to make your work somehow link with a passion, interest, or profession of someone who isn't interested in science or nature.
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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
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I just wanted to be a guy who could earn a living as an actor, and I did that for a long time.
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If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.
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I would let climbing slide away if I had to maintain my relationship with my family. Because it really is the big adventure.
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When I think about the songs I might record, I ask myself, 'Can I picture anybody I know back home sitting in their truck cranking this up?'
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A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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I had five great years at Liverpool and I would rather just keep that memory as it is.
