Danny Baker Quotes

International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the philanthropic excuse that softens the otherwise unendurable tedium of testimonial matches. Quite simply, they are rotten games staged to pick the public's pocket, tiresome red tape left over from an era when nations and players were still insular and therefore curious about each other's potential.

Danny Baker

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• Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Men
  • Live
  • Sympathy

• Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Football
  • Golf
  • Yes

• The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Light

• The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Happiness
  • Secret
  • Admire

• A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Up
  • Idea
  • Revolutionary

• I love when you get to work with people you know because there's so much more trust, and you're much more willing to be vulnerable in a scene with someone you trust.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • People
  • Work
  • Love

• What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.

  

  Om Puri
  • Films
  • Lot
  • Copies

• The labour-power is a commodity, not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he can continuously repeat its sale; it functions as capital after its sale, in the hands of the capitalist, during the process of production itself.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Long
  • Power

• Æschylus: High thoughts must have high language. (rewritten and embellished tr. Fitts 1955, p. 108)

  

  Aristophanes
  • High
  • Thoughts

• There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Power

• One thing about Los Angeles is it feels like it's not new. It feels like it's already been built, and it's deteriorating, except for the places they're trying to make nicer. But in general, you drive all through the city, and the city feels like it was new a long time ago.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Time
  • Long
  • Trying

• If I could wave a magic wand, I would be a size 6 and still be able to eat cake every day.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • Magic

• I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.

  

  Elizabeth Taylor
  • Pink

• True beauty is born through our actions and aspirations and in the kindness we offer to others.

  

  Alek Wek
  • True
  • Kindness

• I can't stop being in parades. I just love dancing on floats that move really slowly on the city streets in the early morning.

  

  Chris Kattan
  • Stop
  • City
  • Morning

• Life is wasted on the living.

  

  Douglas Adams
  • Life

• The First Battle of Fallujah was called off in part because of the intensity of non-U.S. media coverage of civilian casualties from outlets like Al Jazeera.

  

  Phil Klay

• I think if you're an actor, then you can work on stage - but if you've never done it before, you're going to have picked up a few things that you're going to need to change when you're working on stage.

  

  Dominic Monaghan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Done

• Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to chew, damned good for the mind's teeth, but as food - no bloody good at all.

  

  Olaf Stapledon
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.

  

  Barry Watson
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Tough

• Currently under FCC policy, indecency determinations hinge on two factors. First, material must describe or depict sexual or excretory organs or activities. Second, the material must be patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium.

  

  Doug Ose
  • Community

• When you look at all the miracles attributed to Jesus, they're all about change.

  

  Michael Sheen
  • Jesus
  • Miracle

• My God, I think about way back in the day when we were running around in Mary Janes and Doc Martens, that whole 90210-inspired look. I'm glad that's long gone.

  

  Meghan Markle
  • God
  • Long
  • Running

• International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the philanthropic excuse that softens the otherwise unendurable tedium of testimonial matches. Quite simply, they are rotten games staged to pick the public's pocket, tiresome red tape left over from an era when nations and players were still insular and therefore curious about each other's potential.

  

  Danny Baker
  • Player
  • Soccer
  • Friendly