Luis Figo Quotes
As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.
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The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.
Nastassja Kinski -
For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
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People say if bees die out, the world would end, apparently. Now, I don't know if that's true, if that's some bee enthusiast who managed to write a good document, and people believe this.
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I pass through the difficult moments in life, really difficult times on grass, during my seven years of my career. All of a sudden I felt comfortable.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.
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On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
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Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
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We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming.
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You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.
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Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.
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Will Smith would not be Worldwide Will Smith if he had not insisted on going worldwide and touring with his films. You have to build that audience for people and allow for it to happen.
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Thomas Tuchel is a coach who can work in the long-term.
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I worked in a gym. I was a trainer. I did all the crappy ex-football-player jobs.
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I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.
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It's always hard - if you're not the best player on your team, how can you be the best player in college?
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To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.
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I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example - out of the prison of corsets.
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As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.
