Alan Curbishley Quotes
There is a long way to go but the players are confident and are passing the ball around and that was a big game for us today.
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The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.
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I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
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There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
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The quickest way may not necessarily be the best.
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I'm a religious man. I pray for Milky Way.
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Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
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I took a 51 day trip through Asia; 12 countries and 26 cities. I traveled for 51 days. So, it was everywhere from Sri Lanka and that all the way to Japan, where we ended it.
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Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
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Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
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I have to earn re-election. That's the way I see it.
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Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
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Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.
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I need to make things mine. It annoys me to buy something that is imposed on me. When I have a suit made, I go to the Sicilian tailor Alessandro Martorana in Turin. I like shorter jacket sleeves and often fold the cuffs up. It's more modern that way.
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Of course managers win ball games.
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When 'Romeo and Juliet' came along, I fell in love with the way that it was written and how innocent and vulnerable it was and how different it was from 'True Grit.' I really liked that.
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Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
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In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.
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What interested me about Chuck Berry was the way he could step out of the rhythm part with such ease, throwing in a nice, simple riff, and then drop straight into the feel of it again. We used to play a lot more rhythm stuff. We'd do away with the differences between lead and rhythm guitar. You can't go into a shop and ask for a "lead guitar". You're a guitar player, and you play a guitar.
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There's a big shift in our whole way of living, and it started maybe 10 years ago when smartphones came into existence. Up until then, we were at the mercy of the press, and so-called experts that would tell us what to think and how to think.
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I know I wasn't allowed to go to fashion school; I can't cut a dress like Galliano, right? But I had enough wherewithal to go to that studio on my first collection and bring Kim, [stylist] Christine Centenera, Ian Connor, Theophilus London, Virgil Abloh...they all came down to [Vetements/Balenciaga designer] Demna Gvasalia's studio that night and hung out.
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I love Canada...It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos.
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There is a long way to go but the players are confident and are passing the ball around and that was a big game for us today.
