Claudio Ranieri Quotes
What football means to an Italian coach is tactics, trying to control the game by following the ideas and systems of the manager.
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
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When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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The devil made me do it.
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I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.
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Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.
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I'm drawn in some strangely natural way to immersing myself in a milieu whose rules I don't understand, where there are things you can't access simply by being intelligent or doing well in school.
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The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
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If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.
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We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another.
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When I got really sick and needed a stem cell transplant, I was fortunate to have a twin sister as the donor.
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I think that no matter what you do, whether you rodeo, whether you work in an office, you work in the oilfield or you play music for a living, eventually if you do enough of it, the devil in the back of your head tries to turn it into work. You have to find new ways to make it new and make it exciting to keep that drive there.
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When you're from another country, you want to spend time with your family. All your family can't come here. All your friends can't come here. You spend so much time here, you want to go there, too.
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I got my iPad, and I'm trying to buy books on that, but I kind of like a book. At the end of my life, when I'm old, I want to have all these shelves full of books. So I'm just gonna do the book thing.
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Not only did I come out as a reality star that was very boisterous and vivacious and outspoken and all those things. I flipped that into money and respect. And a lot of people can't do that.
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What football means to an Italian coach is tactics, trying to control the game by following the ideas and systems of the manager.
