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Lionel Messi is awesome.
ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC Lionel Messi is a wonderful player. Very skillful. Highly intelligent. He is not good in the air.
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KELLY JONES A letter has been sent to the football league and football federation asking that they look into the...
RAFAEL MARQUEZ Nothing in life comes with so much precision,accuracy,certainty & determination as tomorrow.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Talent without working hard is nothing.
CRISTIANO RONALDO Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last.
GEORGE ORWELL The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, ...
MILTON GLASER The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the avera...
GEORGE ORWELL Nothing is so sexy in a man as talent.
JOAN PLOWRIGHT Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.
ROBERT GRIFFIN III Long ago, before I met her, she twisted her blond hair into dreadlocks and, pretty as she is, the lo...
TONI MORRISON So what do you do if you are imprisoned for your race and ethnicity? The message is, Those are your ...
SUN YUNG SHIN Human tragedies:
We all want to be extraordinary
and we all just want to fit in.
Unfo...
SEBASTYNE YOUNG Expectations are something which is very strange. The more you expect out of your life or from other...
REKHA MENON Without football, my life is worth nothing.
CRISTIANO RONALDO There are two types of football - there's physical football and football talent.
XAVI Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.
CRAIG BRUCE The Rum Diaries.
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72.
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS Invisible.
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS But I don't think people saw it, because it was well disguised. To me, effects are only successful w...
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS God didn't do that! You did it. You're a fucking narcotics agent! I was on to your stinking act from...
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS You took too much man, too much, too much.
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS Dogs fucked the Pope, no fault of mine. Watch out! . . . Why money? My name is Brinks; I was born . ...
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS "we can't stop here this is bat country."

"If we're ever going to get out of here alive, we...
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS Jesus, where will it end? How low do you have to stoop in this country to become president?
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS The difference between the right word and the nearly right word is the difference between lightning ...
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS Go against the tide and sell a product that no one else is selling.
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS Twelve Monkeys.
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS we can't stop here this is bat country.""If we're ever going to get out of here alive, we're going t...
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS the closest sensory approximation of an acid trip ever achieved by a mainstream movie.
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS Let's get down to brass tacks. How much for the ape?
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.
LIONEL MESSI Being named among the best at something is special and beautiful. But if there are no titles, nothin...
LIONEL MESSI I'm lucky to be part of a team who help to make me look good, and they deserve as much of the cr...
LIONEL MESSI You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.
LIONEL MESSI The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.
LIONEL MESSI Today I am the happiest man in the world, my son was born and thanks to God for this gift.
LIONEL MESSI Whether it's a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game - I play the same. I'm...
LIONEL MESSI It's not so easy for us when we play teams who have a different mindset, like Chelsea or Inter M...
LIONEL MESSI There's nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way ...
LIONEL MESSI I repeat what I always say: I want the best for Argentina in every way. I never try to make trouble ...
LIONEL MESSI I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I'd have to ...
LIONEL MESSI I want to concentrate on winning things with Barcelona and Argentina. Then if people want to say nic...
LIONEL MESSI The truth is my idea has been to always stay at Barcelona and see out the rest of my career here. Li...
LIONEL MESSI I've never stopped being Argentine, and I've never wanted to. I feel very proud of being Arg...
LIONEL MESSI For my part, I try to do my bit to make people's lives more bearable, in particular children acr...
LIONEL MESSI Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there a...
LIONEL MESSI I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone el...
LIONEL MESSI You have to show up in the World Cup, and in the World Cup anything can happen.
LIONEL MESSI You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I belie...
LIONEL MESSI Like I've said many times before, I'm always more likely to remember goals for their importa...
LIONEL MESSI The truth is that I don't have a favourite goal. I remember important goals more than I do favou...
LIONEL MESSI We will not take Arsenal lightly for one minute, as they showed in the two matches against us last s...
LIONEL MESSI Nah, I've always had a great relationship with my two brothers, I have always had their support ...
LIONEL MESSI On a personal note, I think it won't be until after I've retired that I'm fully aware of...
LIONEL MESSI It seems like people want to blame me for everything. Whenever any issue arises, I'm said to hav...
LIONEL MESSI I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. ...
LIONEL MESSI When the year starts the objective is to win it all with the team, personal records are secondary.
LIONEL MESSI It's scoring goals that's great, whether against Brazil or anybody else.
LIONEL MESSI What I do is play soccer, which is what I like.
LIONEL MESSI Every year I try to grow as a player and not get stuck in a rut. I try to improve my game in every w...
LIONEL MESSI I want to avoid comparisons because for me there has never been anyone quite like him.
LIONEL MESSI We can't be overconfident. It happened to us when we were leading 2-1 in last year's game. Chelsea h...
LIONEL MESSI This defeat hurts because of the way it happened and because it broke our record of victories.
LIONEL MESSI The precision of the quiet eye location often mirrors the precision required to perform well in a sp...
JOAN VICKERS She's been in constant contact with Lionel and this is what he wants and he wants to be home as soon...
HENRY HUNTER The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I b...
KATE MULGREW Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.
DIANA VREELAND Drop the fucking weapon, you fucking motherfucker or I'll fucking scramble your fucking brains. Hand...
J.D. ROBB Your vision of where or who you want to be is the greatest asset you have. Without having a goal it'...
PAUL ARDEN All in the eye of the beholder - Some of the most destructive forces in the world (Fire & Water)...
MARTIN R. LEMIEUX Sometimes we humans do not want to accept love for what it is. Love demands, transforms, and most of...
JERLINE We shared deep passions. John Hughes movies, the New Romantics, the Chicago Bears. We both loved chi...
STACEY BALLIS This world that we live in would be perfect if there were less prejudice and people who think they a...
WERLEY NORTREUS It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
LAUREN LOLA Believe in yourself. Believe in your abilities; believe in your talent, your uniqueness on this eart...
KEVIN ABDULRAHMAN I know, for example, that Mr. Petersen did not experience the flow of time in the same way that I di...
GAVIN EXTENCE I love soccer, love tennis... Roger Federer has been a favourite for a long, long time. The kind of ...
VIRAT KOHLI I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.
NATE LOWMAN It takes more than just gathering talent to win in football.
KEVIN EVANS It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.
GEORGE ORWELL The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I b...
KATE MULGREW Everything that happens in European football has an influence on global football. Can you conceive f...
SEPP BLATTER Every declaration we make is like a seed planted,whose harvest we can't possibly foretell.
AULIQ-ICE You are my life, little one. We will ask Father Hummer to marry us in the way of your people.” His...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN Pride is the problem. Everyone wants to be right so badly they overlook the "rights" of others.
CARLOS WALLACE As you may follow, they are an extremely hostile species (i.e. there is no word for ‘welcome’ in...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.
GEORGE ORWELL Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.
GEORGE ORWELL I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will...
EDWARD R. MURROW Ground rules, Tanner,” he growled. Tanner paled. More good. “No alcohol. No smoking. No drugs. N...
KRISTAN HIGGINS Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when...
SOLANGE NICOLE And it means snapshots, because that's what all stories I write come down to; each is a snapshot of ...
CAITLíN R. KIERNAN I want to look happily forward. I want to be optimistic. I want to have a dream. I want to live in j...
EDWIDGE DANTICAT In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
ITALO CALVINO Conferences, in football, don't really mean anything any more,
JOEL WELLS Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN

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LIONEL SHRIVER Isn't it funny how ignorance is the source of strength of so many?
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LIONEL SHRIVER The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.
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LIONEL BARRYMORE That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.
LIONEL SHRIVER consistent affection for his characters is what sets Tolstoy apart. Flaubert is equally “objective...
LIONEL TRILLING People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.
LIONEL SHRIVER It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief
LIONEL TRILLING I've been a Republican all my life because I embrace the conservative values of hard work, perso...
LIONEL SOSA When comparing 100 years of experience to 1, there is a way to close the gap. One must simply unders...
LIONEL SUGGS Experience teaches is such a lovely saying. However, when people try not to make the mistakes of wha...
LIONEL SUGGS Wisdom isn't built on experience; it's built on reason...
LIONEL SUGGS I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens... not realizing it was in...
LIONEL RICHIE My earliest memories of country music are the Grand Ole Opry.
LIONEL RICHIE The secrets of the universe aren't really secrets. It's just that humanity is too subjugated by thei...
LIONEL SUGGS I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open s...
LIONEL BLUE Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was...
LIONEL BLUE I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.
LIONEL BLUE To make a statement that one knows is false is more honest than to make a statement that one knows i...
LIONEL SUGGS When you value someone, it merely shows that you truly have no idea about the person that they aren'...
LIONEL SUGGS People lie to adapt...
LIONEL SUGGS I create lies for people in order for them to find something true about themselves. I teach people t...
LIONEL SUGGS Still, through a complex combination of optimism and longing and bravado, you would round it up. Whi...
LIONEL SHRIVER What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I...
LIONEL BLUE I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.
LIONEL BLUE The real evidence is not practically speaking in scholarship but in how Jesus and the Christianity b...
LIONEL BLUE