Alfredo Di Stefano Quotes
People nowadays are obsessed with golden awards, about who is the best — when we know in reality the one with more money wins.
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I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
Every time I watch a Clint Eastwood film, I'm in touch with my feminine side, I've developed a searing man-crush on Clint Eastwood.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.
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Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
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By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.
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When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.
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There's something about the expanse of nature that forces you to think clearly.
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My parents were in high school when I was born. My mom was 16, my dad was 17. They were kids, at the very beginning of coming into their own and finding themselves.
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The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth.
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When I'm passionate about something, I just get excited.
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Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that's why we're alive.
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Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was three or four. The original 'Pinocchio' is terrifying.
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So many people subconsciously shy away from getting rich because they believe they'll be judged, they'll lose the people they love, they believe that desiring money is a bad thing, money is the root of all evil, etc.
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The more money you make, the more the culture already attracts you to serve it, with an aura of glitter and power, to reproduce it in even stronger ways. And you have to resist that so much if any meaningful artistic integrity is to be had.
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
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I'm a politician. I believe that we can change any rule.
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We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war.
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People nowadays are obsessed with golden awards, about who is the best — when we know in reality the one with more money wins.
