Nwankwo Kanu Quotes
Trophies are good, but saving somebody who could die, giving them hope of a life, that means a lot to me.
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We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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I do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights.
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.
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In order for sensation to accede to the objectivity of things, it must itself be changed into a thing. The agent of change is language: the sensations are turned into verbal objects.
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To generate creative ideas, it's important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ideas, they have to be connected to something familiar.
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At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.
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I'm totally myself.
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That's my hunger. If I start to relax, and I lose that, then I had better stop my football. I need that hunger. I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one.
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I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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I want to make sure the people we elect to office believe in America.
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Senator, I'm happy to continue the discussion, but I really hope that you will not imply that I take the truth lightly.
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I'm in my dressing room about to play to a sold-out crowd at the O2 arena in Ireland. Name a female rapper who's ever done that and I will give you $100,000.
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The Eucharist has been preempted and redefined in dualistic thinking that leaves the status quo of the world untouched, so congregations can take the meal without raising questions of violence; the outcome is a "colonized imagination" that is drained of dangerous hope.
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Faults that are rich are fair.
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The Bat that flits at close of Eve Has left the Brain that won't believe. The Owl that calls upon the Night Speaks the Unbeliever's fright.
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Trophies are good, but saving somebody who could die, giving them hope of a life, that means a lot to me.
