Clubs Quotes - Page 3

• Liverpool wouldn't be the club it is today without Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley and the players who played there. When I first went there it was a typical Second Division ground, and look at it now!

  Ian Callaghan

  Player, Typical, Looks

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• There were a WHOLE LOTTA us not having sex at Harvard . . . but none of us thought that that was special enough to start a club about it, for pete’s sake.

  Jessica Valenti

  Sex, Special, Sake

  Jessica Valenti (2009). “The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women”, p.24, Seal Press

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• This is a tremendous assest for the club, a tremendous headache lifted from our shoulders, really.

  Elton John

  Soccer, Headache, Shoulders

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• 'What you doing in the club on a Thursday?'
  She say she only here for her girl birthday...
  They ordered champagne but still look thirsty,
  Rock Forever 21 but just turned 30.

  Kanye West

  Girl, Rap, Rocks

  Song: Bound To

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• By tracing the careers of the four members of the Philosophical Breakfast Club, Laura Snyder has found a wonderful way not just to tell the great stories of 19th-century science, but to bring them vividly to life.

  Tom Standage

  Philosophical, Careers, Stories

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• I never worry 'cause people always try to categorize me. "Oh, that's reggaeton." "Oh, he's a Latin rapper." "Oh, he's crunk." "Oh, he's a Southern rapper," or, "He's a club rapper." As long as they're listening to the music and they're talkin' about it, one way or the other, that means I'm doing something right.

  Pitbull

  Latin, Mean, Rapper

  Source: djbooth.net

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• Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club -the community of speakers of that language.

  Frank Smith

  Learning, Community, Becoming

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• How can you wonder what's going to happen when you don't know who's going to be the new guy in town? It's the age-old thing - it's such a cliché - but why worry about things you have no control over? What I can do is try to get this club to continue to play well. That's all I can do.

  Mike Quade

  Old Things, Play, Worry

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• Of the many guests we welcomed to the Mickey Mouse Club, my absolute favorites were the Lennon Sisters.

  Annette Funicello

  Sister, Guests, Lennon

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• What's the point of having a book club if you don't get to eat brownies and drink wine?

  Jami Attenberg

  Book, Wine, Drink

  Jami Attenberg (2013). “The Middlesteins”, p.103, Profile Books

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• Me and Jerry left because we felt we weren't getting anywhere playing our old songs in tiny clubs. The group was getting stale and staying behind the times.

  Johnny Thunders

  Song, Stay Strong, Tiny

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• Bush has not read enough books to have a developed moral sense. The fewer books you read, the easier it is to become fundamental. In some ways my antiwar stand here is also a stand on anti-literacy. Someone should get G.W. into a reading program, get him to join a book club. Have him read Hamlet, King Lear.

  Sherman Alexie

  Kings, Book, Reading

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• Once in a Moscow chess club I saw how two first-category players knocked pieces off the board as they were exchanged, so that the pieces fell onto the floor. It was as if they were playing skittles and not chess!

  Alexander Kotov

  Player, Two, Boards

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• My new shorty got a gymnastic back,
  '87 emerald green on a classic Jag.
  She had the cleft palate, I ordered chef's salad;
  She had the club foot, with that little arm,
  I couldn't help but laugh...she ordered Chicken Parm.

  Action Bronson

  Rap, Feet, Laughing

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• Took two drags off the blunts, and started breaking down the flag:
  The blue is for the Crips, the red is for the Bloods,
  The whites for the cops, and the stars come from the clubs
  Or the slugs that ignite, through the night,
  By the dawn early light, why is sons fighting for the stripe?

  RZA

  Stars, Rap, Fighting

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• Football is based on desperation. All clubs are desperate in one form or another - desperate to succeed, desperate to survive, desperate to stay where they are, desperate that things get no worse, desperate to arrest the slide.

  Simon Barnes

  Soccer, Football, Analysis

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• There is a movement in club football, which I don't necessarily consider a prime example of solidarity, because it leads us to conclude the rich are getting richer and they are using everything in the market to create an exodus from Africa.

  Sepp Blatter

  Football, Example, Movement

  "Fifa sets up corruption task force" by Matt Scott, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2005.

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• Allyson Smith reminds me of a younger, prettier, funnier me. Now if you'll excuse me, the ladies from my bridge club have arrived.

  Stewart Francis

  Bridges, Excuse, Ifs

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• The only way we will be going to Europe is if the club splash out and take us all to EuroDisney.

  Dean Holdsworth

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• There was interest from clubs in Italy and England, I believe. But I've never been attracted by the way they play in Italy. Staying in Spain was always my preference.

  Luis Figo

  Stay Strong, Believe, Play

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• I mean, what do you do in Las Vegas? You gamble - and you go to strip clubs.

  Scott Caan

  Mean, Vegas, Gambling

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• Nimzovitch became then for me more or less the author of the only book which could help me get away from these Euwe books, which, I admit, are very good for the ordinary club player. But once you've reached a certain strength you get the impression that everything that Euwe writes is a lie.

  Bent Larsen

  Lying, Book, Writing

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• I don't believe in hitting a bad shot and then insisting it's no big deal. No, you just messed up, so react. I'm not saying you need to throw your club. I mean, take 10 seconds to get angry at yourself, but then start over.

  Camilo Villegas

  Believe, Mean, Starting Over

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• The only thing I have in common with George Best is that we came from the same place, play for the same club and were discovered by the same man

  Norman Whiteside

  Soccer, Men, Play

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• You are responsible for the world that you live in. It is not government's responsibility. It is not your school's or your social club's or your church's or your neighbor's or your fellow citizen's. It is yours, utterly and singularly yours.

  August Wilson

  School, Responsibility, Government

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