Carli Lloyd Quotes
Basically my whole life revolves around soccer. I don't take many vacations. Everything just gets put on the back burner because of my training. I miss out on a lot of weddings and family functions. But at the end of the day, I'm sitting here as a world champion, and it feels pretty good.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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Music is my release.
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Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.
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The worst affected from corruption is the common man.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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There have been times when I've reflected on my international career and just thought: 'Well that was a massive waste of time.' Sorry for sounding sour, but my best mate, David Beckham, got butchered after the World Cup in 1998, then my brother, Phil, after Euro 2000.
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And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.
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I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.
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HeyHey is my favourite app. It's like Instagram but for sound recordings, with little soundbites from people's days. We spend far too much time looking down at our phones, so it's nice to have your head up while you listen to what other people have uploaded.
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When people come up and tell me they're such a big fan, it's cool. But weird.
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You can't lose your concentration at all. And there are times when you're on the stage, and you've got silence, which is wonderful, but you have to have the confidence to make you realize it's fine. You can't suddenly wobble and think, 'They're not interested.'
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I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
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Human capital will go where it is wanted, and it will stay where it is well treated. It cannot be driven; it can only be attracted.
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Basically my whole life revolves around soccer. I don't take many vacations. Everything just gets put on the back burner because of my training. I miss out on a lot of weddings and family functions. But at the end of the day, I'm sitting here as a world champion, and it feels pretty good.
