Years Quotes - Page 29

• Professional football is no longer a game. It's a war. And it brings out the same primitive instincts that go back thousands of years.

  Malcolm Allison

  Football, War, Games

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• I believe it is important to go on insisting that normality is not what we are exposed to. Honestly, among my acquaintances there is no woman wearing XS. No, sorry, there is one: my daughter. The point is that Mia is 11 years old. It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.

  Kate Winslet

  Girl, Daughter, Sorry

  "Kate Winslet: 'I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks'". Interview with Simona Siri, www.vanityfair.it. May 30, 2012.

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• Alekhine evidently possesses the most remarkable chess memory that has ever existed. It is said that he remembers by heart all the games played by the leading masters during the last 15-20 years.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Memories, Heart, Games

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• During the course of many years I have observed that a great number of doctors, lawyers, and important businessmen make a habit of visiting a chess club during the late afternoon or evening to relax and find relief from the preoccupations of their work.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Doctors, Numbers, Important

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• For years I exercised to be thinner, and I never got the results I wanted. Now I determine my weight by how my clothes feel.

  Judy Reyes

  Clothes, Weight, Body Image

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• Chess continues to advance over time, so the players of the future will inevitably surpass me in the quality of their play, assuming the rules and regulations allow them to play serious chess. But it will likely be a long time before anyone spends 20 consecutive years as number, one as I did.

  Garry Kasparov

  Player, Numbers, Long

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• And Brighton have beaten Southampton 4-2 which is exactly the same result as last year when they won 3-1

  Des Lynam

  Football, Lasts, Results

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• A lot of fans were drawn to me because they knew that whatever the score was, I was going to run as hard as I could on every play. You don't have that now, you have guys waiting for next week or even next year.

  Walter Payton

  Football, Running, Next Week

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• Every year it changes, sometimes I'm good at the 50m, sometimes I'm terrible, it really depends. I'm still not sure what my best event is.

  Tera Van Beilen

  Swimming, Events, Sometimes

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• I got my tattoo a year before the Olympic trials, so I kind of used it as motivation to make the Olympic team the following year. I look at it every time I dive and it's kind of a little fun thing.

  Tera Van Beilen

  Tattoo, Fun, Motivation

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• The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov)doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Boys, Chess, Clue

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• It was like he was being controlled by a 10 year-old on a PlayStation.

  Gary Neville

  Football, Playstation, Controlled

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• I want to be one of the best players around in two or three years time, to be a decisive footballer.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. But those who have a psssion for nature in the natural way, need no pictures nor gallereies. Spring is their designer, and the whole year their artist.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Art, Nature, Spring

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• The statement "I am in pain" may be one piece of evidence for the conclusion that the speaker is in pain, but it is not the only possible evidence, and since people sometimes tell lies, not even the best possible evidence. Even if there were stronger grounds for refusing to attribute pain to those who do not have language, the consequences of this refusal might lead us to reject the conclusion. Human infants and young children are unable to use language. Are we to deny that a year-old child can suffer?

  Peter Singer

  Children, Pain, Lying

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• ...the proposed air force and army experiments were designed so that many animals would suffer and die without any certainty that this suffering and death would save a single human life or benefit humans in any way at all; but the same can be said of millions of their experiments performed each year in the United States alone.

  Peter Singer

  Army, Animal, Suffering And Death

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• Madame Curie didn't stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.

  B. C. Forbes

  Success, Found, Madame Curie

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• How much wilderness do the wilderness-lovers want? ask those who would mine and dig and cut and dam in such sanctuary spots as these. The answer is easy: Enough so that there will be in the years ahead a little relief, a little quiet, a little relaxation, for any of our increasing millions who need and want it.

  Wallace Stegner

  Cutting, Relaxation, Relief

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• The depth of experience fine wine can bring to a dinner, particularly a bottle that has been through the past 100 years, makes you take stock of your own life.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Wine, Past, Dinner

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• These laid the world away; poured out the red
  Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be
  Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene,
  That men call age; and those who would have been,
  Their sons, they gave, their immortality.

  Rupert Brooke

  Sweet, Wine, Son

  New Numbers no. 4 (1914) "The Dead"

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• A sight of the label is worth 50 years experience.

  Michael Broadbent

  Wine, Sight, Labels

  Michael Broadbent (1984). “The Complete Guide to Wine Tasting and Wine Cellars”, Simon & Schuster

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• For the academic the rhetorical sense of superiority through the possession of knowledge is essential for facing the daily grind, turning again to the otherwise boring article, braving the students who, fresh as each class may be, will still ask the same questions year after year. Psychological survival is not achieved without effort, and the environment must be managed, knocked about with one's elbows until it takes a shape comfortable to one's sense of self. This is not selfishness, for in reshaping the environment the academic is also reinvigorating the educational process.

  Robin Winks

  Educational, Teaching, Class

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• Giving his lecture for the third time freed Dr. Lionel Gift from paying much attention to it. He had a naturally expressive style of delivery, hones over the years in elementary-econ lecture halls. He knew, without even thinking, to address the middle rows of the hall, but to occasionally "shoot" the listeners in the back corners. He knew how to make eye contact and solicit the attention of those who were thinking of other things.

  Jane Smiley

  Teaching, Eye, Thinking

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• You hear about bands who say, "We did one show where only 20 people showed up", well that was our average gig for five years.

  Dexter Holland

  Average, People, Band

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• Like everyone else in the world, I've been devastated by the loss and suffering of so many in South Asia....As a mother, I cannot imagine the pain that they are experiencing. We can all see that it's going to take a long time for those people to rebuild their lives, and they will need our help for years to come.

  Celine Dion

  Mother, Pain, Loss

  "Brad Pitt bars international journalists; Donald Trump's exes say 'no' to wedding invite; fifth time the charm for David Carradine?". Daily Dish, www.sfgate.com. January 13, 2005.

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