Xavi Quotes
Celtic, like Barcelona, are more than a football club. Our clubs are a symbol of a culture and community that has not always been made welcome in their respective countries.
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.
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In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
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It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
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I used to be a professional kiteboarder. People were like, 'Oh, my God, are you scared of sharks? Are you scared of injuries?' You can't be scared. If you're scared, then you can't do it. You can't train to be the best.
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I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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In college, the guys aren't worrying about whether they'll be able to pursue their career dreams and still have kids.
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I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully.
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The real job is not to understand foreign culture but to understand our own.
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People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.
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Celtic, like Barcelona, are more than a football club. Our clubs are a symbol of a culture and community that has not always been made welcome in their respective countries.
