Michael Ballack Quotes
It's a decisive game. Not just for us but also for the mood of the country. It's important going into the World Cup that we get a successful result.
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No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.
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From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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I am a friend of Adventist people and a lover of truth.
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The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.
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The more I find out about the dynamic and how it works, the more I realize how lucky I am to have ever got anything. Like... there was no need to put me in 'Cinderella Man' - there was no need. Why? Just get an American actor - it would've been cheaper, probably.
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The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.
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Football is my sanctuary. It's where I go to escape. It's where I'm most happy.
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In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.
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For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.
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The little kids in the stands are going to give you a good cheer. Sometimes, that overrides the other people.
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When I was a little boy, I rode, but I didn't own horses.
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The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads.
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I don't think if you asked any of my childhood friends they would say that I had a weird childhood; they might say there weren't a lot of regular rules, the conversations in the house were always very open, dreams were a great thing to talk about, everybody was making something all the time.
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The biggest thing I think is, 'It's OK to care. It's OK to want to win and to be that team. To be upset when we lose.'
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In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.
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When 'Nevermind' came out, my roommate had the CD. At first, I actually thought, 'This is too polished and commercial.' It was a little off-putting. But then I was like, 'This is the best music ever.' It felt so close to what I wanted to do.
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When you think about alien intelligences making art, you then have to think about what art is and how bound up it is in the nature of consciousness. Why do we make art? And what can we expect to have in common with other creatures in universe?
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Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.
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Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.
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It's a decisive game. Not just for us but also for the mood of the country. It's important going into the World Cup that we get a successful result.
