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• When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Family
  • Age
  • Small

• Life is like an analogy.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Life
  • Like
  • Analogy

• Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Earth
  • Promise
  • Hell

• Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Words

• You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Climb

• You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Live
  • Black
  • Social Media

• I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Political
  • Feel
  • Tragedy

• Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Live
  • Want
  • Uncomfortable

• The beauty comes with the balance. Everyone should find his own balance in his personal as well as his professional life. Once you do so, you will feel and look beautiful.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Balance

• After about twenty issues of Josie, they decided to pay me.

  

  Dan DeCarlo
  • Issues
  • Pay
  • Decided

• I do have some viewers who know where I live, and they'll stand outside.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Live
  • Know
  • Stand

• (Econometrics is) the unification of economic theory, statistics and mathematics.

  

  Ragnar Frisch

• More than likely, mother would simply go enigmatic on him, give him one of her inscrutable smiles, and tell him that if he didn't already understand, he never would.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Mother

• The more noisy Negro leaders, by depicting all whites as natural and implacable enemies to their race, have done it a great disservice. Large numbers of whites who were formerly very friendly to it, and willing to go to great lengths to help it, are now resentful and suspicious.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Great
  • Done
  • Help

• Our own time, and by this I mean the last two or three generations, including our own, can be summed up in a way that brings into unity an immense number of details by saying of it that it is a time in which the search for the supreme truth has been a search in reality or through reality or even a search for some supremely acceptable fiction.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Up
  • Time
  • Truth

• Asimov: Well, I liked Star Wars. I thought Battlestar Galactica was such a close imitation of Star Wars, emphasizing the less attractive portions, that I was a little impatient with it.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Star

• How many shots does it take before the concept ay choice becomes obsolete?

  

  Irvine Welsh

• To me more dear, congenial to my heart,One native charm, than all the gloss of art.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Heart
  • Art

• My growth was stopped at two years old. And when they talk about Axl Rose being a screaming two-year-old, they're right. There's a screaming two-year-old who's real pissed off and hides and won't show himself that often, even to me. Because I couldn't protect him. And the world didn't protect him.

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • World
  • Real
  • Growth

• While I played Ranji Trophy for five years, I used to be asked, 'When are you playing for the nation?' - a question which I didn't have any answer to. I kept playing before I got my first break in 1996; those five years were indeed frustrating.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • You
  • Question
  • Years

• The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man - that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense - has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Great
  • Book

• I got into rock music at thirteen, listening to Van Halen, learned how to play the electric guitar.

  

  Dierks Bentley
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Listening

• Living creatures possess a moving soul and a certain spiritual superiority which in this respect make them similar to those who possess intellect (people) and they have the power of affecting their welfare and their food and they flee from pain and death.

  

  Nahmanides
  • People
  • Power
  • Soul

• Kanye West talks about being Axl Rose, being Kurt Cobain, being Jim Morrison. Adam Levine is selling acne ointment to teenagers.

  

  Ian Astbury The Cult
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