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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I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.
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Honestly, I feel like everything in life happens for a reason, and my son has been the greatest gift that God has given me in my life and been the most game-changing thing that's happened to my life, in a necessary way.
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Karl Lagerfeld never touched a pair of scissors in his life.
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The bank told us we ought to sell this house to pay off our overdraft. Riders saved the day. I was so pleased when it got to number one, I went all around the fields crying and crying.
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It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having a serious division.
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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.
