Ivan Rakitić Quotes

I think people don't really understand how much footballers are affected by the people in their lives. When we're interviewed, people always ask about managers and tactics and training, but they almost never ask about what's going on off the pitch, and to me, that's just as important to your career.

Ivan Rakitić

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• Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Time
  • Music
  • Born

• But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Want
  • Thought
  • Ambition

• If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Perfect
  • Humility
  • Only

• One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Play
  • Winning
  • Should

• I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Art

• My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Style

• The nature of an ensemble means when you're a supporting character and not the lead character, you get little tidbits here and there, but you're usually there to provide bits of comic relief and little bits of action or something.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Character
  • Nature
  • Action

• Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Believe
  • Comforting
  • Fairy

• Well if you don’t want me to grow up talkin‘ that way, why do you send me to school?

  

  Harper Lee
  • Up
  • School
  • Why

• There's only so much you can say about celebrity, obviously.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Celebrity

• I love doing period work, like all the trappings and the wigs and everything. It really helps when it's such a different world that you're immersing yourself in; it helps to get into the story, I think, and step into that different place.

  

  Joanna Going
  • World
  • Work
  • Different

• There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war.

  

  Charles Lindbergh
  • People
  • War
  • Enemy

• Rod has always been like my third child and my most demanding boy out of the three.

  

  Penny Lancaster
  • Boy

• I love musicians. I think artists are the most amazing people because they're constantly creating beauty for the world. With all the crazy stuff going on in the world, then there's artists reminding us of our humanity and reminding us of our heart and soul and what really matters.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • People
  • World
  • Heart

• Every single one of us who has been a 'Woman in Film' for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase 'Women in Film.'

  

  Lynda Obst
  • Women
  • Single
  • Sick

• There's no more place in the euro zone for well-meaning laxness when dealing with deficits and failings. If the demands on Greece aren't taken seriously, we'll get stuck in quicksand. In the worst case, this would make it acceptable for one tranche to not be paid out. It is in the Greeks own interest not to test that.

  

  Peer Steinbruck
  • Taken

• We have an audience, the ability to fund our own projects, own our own projects, the ability to display our projects unencumbered by any middlemen. That's the perfect scenario.

  

  Freddie Wong
  • Perfect

• I'm anti-globalisation. There is nothing more enriching than to go out into the world and meet people different to you. We must fight the spread of a singular way of thinking and preserve cultural differences.

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Why
  • Practice
  • Fire

• I don't know [whether] if I didn't get paid, or my career didn't keep going where it goes, if I would keep doing music.

  

  Rashard Bradshaw
  • Music
  • Career

• The 2001 tour to Australia would have been a great highlight in my career if the Lions had won the series. That might sound strange because it was a great tour in many ways, but, for me, the more time goes by, the less of a career highlight it becomes, and just more of a frustration.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • Career
  • Australia
  • Series

• It was hard for me to hear anyone saying they didn't like 'Billy Madison.'

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Like
  • Hard
  • Saying

• At the end of the day, it not only doesn't make logical sense to deny licenses to undocumented immigrants, it doesn't make financial sense.

  

  Cheech Marin
  • Financial

• I think people don't really understand how much footballers are affected by the people in their lives. When we're interviewed, people always ask about managers and tactics and training, but they almost never ask about what's going on off the pitch, and to me, that's just as important to your career.

  

  Ivan Rakitić
  • Important
  • Career
  • Interviewed