Wim Crouwel Quotes
The grid is like the lines on a football field. You can play a great game in the grid or a lousy game. But the goal is to play a really fine game.
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Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there was nothing better for me to do. They also didn't draft me because they thought I was too wild and undisciplined.
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There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.
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It's cool because football, as much as it gives, it takes away a lot, too.
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Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.
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Personal records are not what football is all about, but as goalscorers, we live and die by figures and numbers because, ultimately, that's how people will judge you.
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On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.
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I probably prefer Spanish football to the others. It's very technical, the way they play; they keep the ball well, and whenever Spurs have played against Spanish teams in the past, they've always made it difficult for us.
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It was never my goal to be an actor.
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Football has been everything to me since I was 10 years old.
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I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.
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I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.
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Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.
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By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.
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I started wrestling at ten. I played a lot of other sports: soccer, football. I really enjoyed skiing. But wrestling just took off for me. It seemed to be the sport I had an affinity for; I liked the individual, combative nature. There's something special about that. It took me all the places I wanted to go.
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My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.
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My next goal is for Shenzhen to become the model of environmentally-friendly and sustainable development.
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl: I want to rule the world.
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Football is a team sport, and there is no one individual who is bigger than the next person.
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I want my paintings to give the viewer a true sense of reality - that includes but is not limited to depth, scale and a tactile surface as well as the real sense of what the subject looks like and is feeling at the time that I painted them. There should be a discourse between the viewer and the subject, to feel as though they are in a way connected. My goal is not to set a narrative but rather to have the viewer bring their own experiences to the painting and the subject as they would if they had seen the subject on the street in real life.
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Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat.
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The whole world has changed after September 11th.
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The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem. There is no longevity.
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The grid is like the lines on a football field. You can play a great game in the grid or a lousy game. But the goal is to play a really fine game.
