Whether it's a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game - I play the same. I'm always trying to be my best, first for my team, for myself, for the fans, and to try and win.
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Related And I like to keep whatever is mine remaining that way. It's a funny little game to play and it&... KRISTEN STEWART I save my dreams and hopes for my kids. When I'm making a wish under a bridge or tunnel, it'... ALISON SWEENEY I just play my game. I don't care about stats. I just play hard and try to make something happen, ei... CROSBY STYLES A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious an... BILLY CAMPBELL The biggest thing for me is the passion that I've always had for hockey. I remember growing up, ... SIDNEY CROSBY Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI I'm always going to be a Celtic no matter what. It's always going to be in my veins. Once yo... RAY ALLEN I try to do my best every game to help the pitchers and help my team win. That's it. ASDRUBAL CABRERA For me, the best thing I can do is play live. The best way for me to put over what I'm trying to... PAUL WELLER Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL I strictly want to beat every opponent I face, whether it's for a title or for a small show. The... PAIGE VANZANT I've never had to fight for a role. Call it my ego or my self-respect, but I won't pick up t... SONAKSHI SINHA Sure, I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games, but my day isn't ruine... AARON STATON I'm really looking forward to the Hall of Fame ceremonies. It's going to be unbelievable - j... JERRY RICE Win or lose, I always like to get back to my friends and family. They keep me grounded. When I'm... GABRIEL MEDINA It's fun for me to try to write concise, compact things. It's a very good exercise for me. A... WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN I try to play like I did when I was a young boy playing in my garden. Sometimes it's good, somet... EDEN HAZARD Anytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm au... ADAM PALLY Everything I do, whether it's producing or signing an artist, always starts with the songs. When... RICK RUBIN To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I've always enjoyed fashion and dressing up for things, whether it's high fashion or play fa... DARREN CRISS I'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same ... RANDY HOUSER I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tea... DAVE GROHL Whenever I'm talking about relationships, it's always at least three things. It's my rel... JOSE JAMES I'm personally looking for artists that are along the lines of today's pop stars. Whether it... L.A. REID I'm not going to be doing anything to hurt myself or my fans. BECKY G I have respect for what other people believe. What I believe in my own life is that it's a searc... TOM CRUISE My goal has always been to play golf, and play it well. In the end, that's what I am, a golfer. ... FRED COUPLES I've always been an unselfish guy, and that's the only way I know how to play on the court a... LEBRON JAMES (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON For me, I'm just trying to be the best at what I do. I'll wave an Asian American flag if I g... CHAD HUGO Sometimes I play for the media, sometimes for the fans, sometimes for my sponsors, and sometimes it&... JASON DAY I'm trying to figure myself out through my movies. Whether it's big stuff like what we'r... JASON REITMAN If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result ... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI It annoys me a little when people try to be positive when I don't play my best. I play to win. I... CAMILO VILLEGAS My thing is to execute the given play, execute the game plan to the best of my ability. If the optio... CAM NEWTON Trust me, I play the game for the fans, my family and myself. DAVID ORTIZ I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whet... JOHNNY DEPP He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. CRAIG GROESCHEL After my second-to-last record, 'The Greatest', I had gone on tour for a while, and I didn... CAT POWER That's the only reason I'm here. I don't need to play the game for any other reason than... DREW BLEDSOE Running for me has always been a great place to get away. It's a great stress reliever for me. I... SCOTT BAKULA Myself and my two younger sisters and brother were paid for any chores, whether it was washing pop... MARIE HELVIN I'm worried about doing my best, playing to my potential, helping out my teammates, and trying t... ELI MANNING I'll never try to win an award. I'm out there just playing for my team. KAWHI LEONARD For my generation, the bomber jacket is like a replacement for the suit jacket. It's a piece tha... THE WEEKND I have always been very calm on the outside. I'm not too stressed now just because I'm in fo... FERNANDO ALONSO There is a big difference between No. 1 and No. 2. I don't care who wrote it. I'd love to on... RANDY HOUSER It's the same game. It's baseball. National League, American League. It's baseball. I ju... ASDRUBAL CABRERA I'm going to do my best to help the team play hard and help the team win... I'm just coming ... ASDRUBAL CABRERA I'm best when I'm feral, when I don't wash or shave or change my trousers for a couple o... GREG WISE Every demo I do has a mandolin or resonator on it - some element of the bluegrass or classic country... HUNTER HAYES I learned there were lots of realities in the world. HARUKI MURAKAMI My first book, 'To Be or Not To Be,' took 'Hamlet' and converted it to the choose-yo... RYAN NORTH To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD I don't just write hits for myself, or for other artists, or to just be writing it. I write it b... NAYVADIUS CASH I mean whatever I do it's important that I put my stamp on it and keep it in my world, whether I... MARC ALMOND I've always been a person who tries to build bridges and not walls. Whether it's my ex-wife ... CHAD COLEMAN As far as the Jets go, I'm competing to play. It will be a heated competition between Kellen and... MARK SANCHEZ I'm not skinny for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm bulimic or anorexic or doing ... LINDSAY LOHAN Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fight... MADCHEN AMICK Whether you're trying to learn in hockey or trying to learn in life, I've always tried to be... SIDNEY CROSBY Sometimes I'm doing a big movie, or sometimes I'm doing a TV show, but as an actor, it's... HIROYUKI SANADA I do a lot of collaborations and productions, whether it's Switch or Steve Aoki or No ID or Will... DIPLO I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a cert... PAIGE VANZANT When I know the data that's being shared and I'm asked explicitly for my consent, I want som... GARY KOVACS It's really annoying for me. That's not what I'm playing for, to be the face of the NBA ... STEPHEN CURRY As a mom, that's at the forefront of everything in my mind, so I'm always trying to balance,... CHRISTINA MILIAN Everything is a blessing, even meetings. Whether it's meetings or running gassers or lifting, it... ERIC BERRY The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it's so gr... CHRIS EVANS Whether I'm at the hangar or at the airport or on an airplane, I get respect. And that's the... GORDON BETHUNE Some stuff I don't even put out. I'll just be home, happy, creating something for myself, an... LUPE FIASCO I'm a stand-up comic. I'm always doing dates; it's just that, if I'm working on a pr... WANDA SYKES I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in ... CAROL ANSHAW I am very excited - it's a big opportunity for me to play for Manchester United, a new challenge... HENRIKH MKHITARYAN I'm a Scrabble nut, and I need something to do while I'm travelling. Scrabble keeps me occup... SUZI QUATRO I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short storie... SAM ABELL I played without fear. I've done that since I first kicked a ball in my back garden as a five-ye... EDEN HAZARD I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in Cali... AARON RODGERS I don't want anybody, whether it's my grandchildren or any of our employees' grandchildr... WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR. I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy. Take a sa... ERYKAH BADU I wanted to give all I had for my team. It was a very important match and it carried our momentum in... DEVANTE GRIFFIN What I'm going to be trying to do is put my team in the best situation to win and not try to make ev... MATT FLYNN I don't plan or schedule my career thinking first I will play a common man, then a police office... NIVIN PAULY Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the re... TOM FELTON Drugs will have a huge effect on my work for the rest of my life, whether I'm using or not. LAYNE STALEY I'm always in a hotel room, and I spend a good portion of my day setting it up so it's comfo... HOWIE MANDEL Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD These days, I'm always trying to have lots of touches, to be involved, and to play my football f... EDEN HAZARD I've never played Scots or got the chance to do my Scottish accent. I'm always trying it out... CALLUM KEITH RENNIE I'm very wary of large groups of people getting together and trying to believe the same thing. I... PETER KRAUSE The Only Way Out Is To DIE!!!! BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the t... RAFAEL NADAL It's always good to see the world; always good to see new places. When I'm sitting at home, ... ROMAN REIGNS I just want to be successful. I'm not going to sit here and be like, 'I want to win a Grammy... LIL UZI VERT My approach to the work is the same, whether I had the lead or a supporting role. I consider myself ... VING RHAMES I generally don't use an iPod for track work, as I'm focusing on heart rate and times. When ... LAURA ROBSON I usually try to stay off my phone and enjoy the world, but when I am on my phone, it's always f... ROSS LYNCH I'm very shy and awkward. I think the best thing is to embrace it. It's about accepting who ... 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There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game. LIONEL MESSI In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision. 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 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 My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I'... LIONEL BLUE Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned ... LIONEL BLUE Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. 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LIONEL SHRIVER Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader LIONEL TRILLING I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its to... LIONEL SHRIVER We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Ut... LIONEL TRILLING Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecuti... LIONEL TRILLING In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetra... LIONEL TRILLING It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief. LIONEL TRILLING In hindsight, Watergate was a curse as well as a blessing for American journalism. The courageous re... LIONEL BARBER Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind. LIONEL HAMPTON The post-war American newsroom resembled a vast factory churning out multiple editions through the n... LIONEL BARBER Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond... LIONEL HAMPTON I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it... LIONEL RICHIE Our U.S. audience is composed of globally-minded Americans, an elite category, the ones who do have ... LIONEL BARBER I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies. LIONEL JOSPIN You cannot beat the feeling of sitting on top of the charts. I had almost forgotten what it feels li... LIONEL RICHIE They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are eas... LIONEL SHRIVER I had the pleasure of seeing a real goddess today. She was her own definition of beauty. She was mag... LIONEL SUGGS I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common co... LIONEL SHRIVER My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of t... LIONEL BLUE A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture ... LIONEL TRILLING My guess is the great majority of teachers would welcome a system where innovation is embraced, wher... LIONEL SOSA Be proud of your Latino culture and do the best work you can do, and you will always succeed. LIONEL SOSA The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. LIONEL TRILLING It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reitera... LIONEL TRILLING I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn... LIONEL BLUE Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general. LIONEL HAMPTON Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit. LIONEL BLUE A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whet... LIONEL SHRIVER Isn't it funny how ignorance is the source of strength of so many? LIONEL SUGGS Kids will keep it real. If I've ever had in my life a great anchor, it's them. They get in y... LIONEL RICHIE As a cub reporter, I devoured books about journalism. LIONEL BARBER Peace is a flawed logic. They believe that communication and understanding will create peace. Howeve... LIONEL SUGGS I feel honored to have been a part of that dramatic change. LIONEL HAMPTON Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God. LIONEL HAMPTON For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attain... LIONEL BLUE The poet... may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. LIONEL TRILLING My windows open to the autumn night, In vain I watched for sleep to visit me, How should sleep dul... LIONEL JOHNSON Madison's height took us out early in the game but we never quit. We continued to play our game. It ... LIONEL ANDERSON Kids walking to school are getting offered rides, players are getting let in line at the cafeteria, ... LIONEL ANDERSON We're all very much excited. We had a chance last year, but we got shot down before the Top 28. The ... LIONEL ANDERSON I've got just bits and pieces on Madison. But we've never worried about that before, you know, about... LIONEL ANDERSON This is our business. It is what we do. LIONEL ANDERSON The last two years it has been working for us. LIONEL ANDERSON Business is very good right now. LIONEL ANDERSON I thought we did a good job stopping their perimeter shooting. Overall, we did a good job defensivel... LIONEL ANDERSON We don't get rattled. We never get rattled. Coming into the game we knew that St. James was a good-s... LIONEL ANDERSON There were always plenty of newspapers in the house. 'The Times', 'Guardian', 'D... LIONEL BARBER I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I ... LIONEL BLUE Thanks to social media such as Facebook and Twitter, a far wider range of people take part in gather... LIONEL BARBER Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in... LIONEL RICHIE It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were ... LIONEL BLUE It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on ca... LIONEL RICHIE I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and t... LIONEL RICHIE All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes. LIONEL RICHIE Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. This is to prevent him... LIONEL TRILLING At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincer... LIONEL BLUE Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament p... LIONEL BLUE Anger does not solve problems - anger only makes things worse. I go by the old saying, 'Don'... LIONEL SOSA Yet if there's no reason to live without a child, how could there be with one? To answer one life wi... LIONEL SHRIVER The existence of other people is essentially awkward. LIONEL SHRIVER Okay, it's like this. You wake up, you watch TV, and you get in the car and you listen to the radio.... LIONEL SHRIVER I realize it's commonplace for parents to say to their child sternly, 'I love you, but I don't alway... LIONEL SHRIVER The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity. LIONEL SHRIVER I didn't care about anything. And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which ... LIONEL SHRIVER Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life. LIONEL SHRIVER In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainl... LIONEL SHRIVER ...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have... LIONEL SHRIVER Still, I may have been glad to scratch the dry surface of our day-to-day peaceableness the way Viole... LIONEL SHRIVER I'm motivated. The spirit hits me and I just keep going and don't stop. The more I play, the more I ... LIONEL HAMPTON [Jazz] went from the classics to ragtime to Dixieland to swing to bebop to cool jazz, . . . But it's... LIONEL HAMPTON For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew thi... LIONEL BLUE My father was a journalist for 50 years in Leeds and Fleet Street. I thought about a career in busin... LIONEL BARBER Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion... LIONEL BLUE We must lead in a different way... We must have an active president, who gives strong direction and ... LIONEL JOSPIN I am not the Prime Minister of French capitalism. I am the Prime Minister of France. LIONEL JOSPIN Inhuman and barbaric acts were carried out by both sides, even if each side tended for too long to d... LIONEL JOSPIN an exceptional woman ... who brilliantly gave Russian women a new image. LIONEL JOSPIN We must lead in a different way, ... We must have an active president, who gives strong direction an... LIONEL JOSPIN No senior official -- neither the interior minister, nor the defense or justice ministers, nor the p... LIONEL JOSPIN I wondered why people ever tried to accomplish anything when attainment of every sort was inbuilt wi... LIONEL SHRIVER Why would you want to sell millions of people on the illusion that they knew you, when they didn't? LIONEL SHRIVER Country is bringing in a little rock element... a little '80s element. Melody is king now. But i... LIONEL RICHIE In the summer of 2009, I modestly predicted that most major news organisations would be charging for... LIONEL BARBER The best compliment that has ever been given to me was, I was at the airport one day and a guy came ... LIONEL RICHIE Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physic... LIONEL BLUE For the BBC and others, a free website is an obvious and relatively cheap addendum to their main pur... LIONEL BARBER The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materia... LIONEL BLUE You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of... LIONEL SHRIVER The secret is keeping busy, and loving what you do. LIONEL HAMPTON We talk about what's important to Hispanics: education, family, creating an environment in which... LIONEL SOSA Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be. LIONEL BARRYMORE Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world. LIONEL BARRYMORE I've got a lot of ham in me. LIONEL BARRYMORE I believe that we are missing a great opportunity. We as Republicans are not really emphasizing what... LIONEL SOSA We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of b... LIONEL TRILLING The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather LIONEL TRILLING Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary inte... LIONEL TRILLING Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over. LIONEL TRILLING The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is posse... LIONEL TRILLING Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect... LIONEL TRILLING The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal. LIONEL TRILLING I've always been crazy about playing. LIONEL HAMPTON That was a big deal at the time, because no blacks were integrated with whites in anything - not in ... 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. LIONEL HAMPTON Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood LIONEL TRILLING This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century... 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... LIONEL TRILLING To my mind there is nothing so beautiful or so provocative as a secondhand book store...To me it is ... LIONEL BARRYMORE But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon. LIONEL SHRIVER Omnipotence is a status that is fragile at best. By its very own standard meaning of unlimited power... LIONEL SUGGS He looks uncomfortable, and in this respect the garb is apt. Kevin is uncomfortable; the tiny clothi... LIONEL SHRIVER People won't see Imagination in something that doesn't relate to their experience because of their o... LIONEL SUGGS Are you chuckling yet? Because then along came you. A big, broad meat eater with brash blond hair an... LIONEL SHRIVER People need to stop accepting the evidence of reality, and start questioning it. LIONEL SUGGS Beware of what "everybody says". LIONEL SHRIVER To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teen... 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