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You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.


Lionel Messi

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CESC FABREGAS Lionel Messi is awesome.
ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.
CRAIG GROESCHEL To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool.
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JOHN M SHEEHAN Sometimes life gets a little boring so you have to do something crazy to remember your alive!
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY How to get it, I annoy you???
You are not interested???

What's the idea???
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Let your zeal speak for you!
Work passionately,
And smile...
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BARBARA BUSH Not everyone has the time to be normal.
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Dare to be yourself.
Dare to be different.
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DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I wouldn’t change a thing
Because all those things led me to
this place
And to you
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JIM VALVANO Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
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EYTAN ROCKAWAY Unlimited opportunities awaits the person who dare to seek.
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JIM VALVANO In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.
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LIONEL BLUE Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general.
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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 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.
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LIONEL SHRIVER The existence of other people is essentially awkward.
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LIONEL SHRIVER The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.
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LIONEL SHRIVER Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.
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LIONEL JOSPIN an exceptional woman ... who brilliantly gave Russian women a new image.
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LIONEL SOSA Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.
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LIONEL BARRYMORE I've got a lot of ham in me.
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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 SHRIVER Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade.
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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...
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