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Most people get suicide, I guess; most people, even if it's hidden deep down inside somewhere, can remember a time in their…
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Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd…
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Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth.
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[H]ow was I supposed to get excited about the oppression of females if they couldn't be trusted to stay upright during the…
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One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to refer to…
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Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination.
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I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway.
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I have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records – much…
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Life isn't, and has never been, a 2-0 home victory after a fish and chip lunch.
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Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow.
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I have learned things from the game. Much of my knowledge of locations in Britain and Europe comes not from school, but…
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It is a strange paradox that while the grief of football fans(and it is real grief) is private - we each have…
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It is only when aggression is legitimate that one can expect prodigies of valour.
— Unknown Author
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When I noticed how my own children were effortlessly able to use all this sophisticated technology, at first I thought, 'My children…
— Don Tapscott
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !
— Jonathan Swift
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Did a Magdalene, a Paul, a Constantine, an Augustine become mountains of ice after their conversion? Quite the contrary. We should never…
— Frances Xavier Cabrini
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Unless you're a true prodigy, you're going to have to practice for a while being bad before you get any good. And…
— Brad Paisley
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There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.
— Luciano Pavarotti
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For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.
— Itzhak Perlman
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You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy.
— Franz Liszt
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Destiny, quite often, is a determined parent. Mozart was hardly some naive prodigy who sat down at the keyboard and, with God…
— Twyla Tharp
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If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.
— Gioachino Rossini
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SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave.…
— Ambrose Bierce
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