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Lionel Messi

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DAVID DUCHOVNY I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
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SIR PHILIP SIDNEY I am glad that he thanks God for anything.
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LISA J. SHULTZ I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent.
BERNIE WORRELL I was extremely lucky. I had some huge crashes and yet I am still here, thanks to God.
EMERSON FITTIPALDI I'm black because I was born this way. I'm proud of it. Thank God I am who I am.
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CINDY SHEEHAN The day my son was born my life changed completely.
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NOLAN RYAN I am humbled by the grace of God.
I am humbled by the beauty of this universe.
Humbled by ...
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GEORGE TAKEI You know, I can be the happiest man in the world with minimal record success.
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JOE LHOTA My son, what you are attempting – shadow-travel across the world, carrying the statue of Athena �...
RICK RIORDAN I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
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EVELYN WAUGH This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.
OSAMU DAZAI In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to ma...
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COLIN FARRELL Before I left China, I was educated that China was the richest, happiest country in the world. So wh...
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AARON SORKIN I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.
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LIONEL MESSI When the year starts the objective is to win it all with the team, personal records are secondary.
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LIONEL HAMPTON Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.
LIONEL HAMPTON Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too.
LIONEL KAUFFMAN Chicago was jazzy, man, jazzy - they had all the great jazz men.
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LIONEL BARRYMORE I have noted that persons with bad judgment are most insistent that we do what they think best.
LIONEL ABEL Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, pos...
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LIONEL BARRYMORE But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.
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LIONEL SHRIVER People need to stop accepting the evidence of reality, and start questioning it.
LIONEL SUGGS Beware of what "everybody says".
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LIONEL BLUE I find the concept of Hell to be more honest than that of everyday life. In Hell, no one can lie to ...
LIONEL SUGGS Discomfort begets discomfort in others.
LIONEL SHRIVER Intellectuals that approach me, only serve to feeding my intellectualism. Imaginists that approach m...
LIONEL SUGGS Sure...the boy was precocious. But having been precocious himself, Lowell was never wowed by teenage...
LIONEL SHRIVER His weight makes him a social pariah. It reduces the likelihood he’ll remarry. It has grave implic...
LIONEL SHRIVER Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade.
LIONEL SHRIVER I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn't care what he believed.
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