"Messi is undoubtedly a gifted footballer, like Maradona and Pele, and he's playing for the best club side in the world at the moment. He's successful and he's winning trophies, so it's only logical that he'll be voted the best player in the world."

-- Oliver Kahn

#Successful Quotes #Winning Quotes #Player Quotes

“When you struggle, that's when you realize what you're made of, and that's when you realize what the people around you can do. You learn who you'd want to take with you to a war, and who you'd only want to take to lunch.”

Source : Chamique Holdsclaw (2001). “Chamique: On Family, Focus, and Basketball”, p.168, Simon and Schuster
“Donald Trump doesn't have significant tells when he's lying because truth and lies to him are kind of homogenized. He's such a pro at it that you don't see a lot of divergence in his body language when he's lying or telling the truth. It's just constant bulls**t. He's probably a very good bluffer.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“Every night is different, you never know what it's going to be like. I remember every night. I don't like to compare them.”
“The camp is the space that is opened when the state of exception begins to become the rule.”

Source : Giorgio Agamben (2017). “The Omnibus Homo Sacer”, p.139, Stanford University Press
“I looked at other couples and wondered how they could be so calm about it. They held hands as if they weren't even holding hands. When Steve and I held hands, I had to keep looking down to marvel at it. There was my hand, the same hand I've always had - oh, but look! What is it holding? It's holding Steve's hand! Who is Steve? My three-dimensional boyfriend. Each day I wondered what would happen next. What happens when you stop wanting, when you are happy. I supposed I would go on being happy forever. I knew I would not mess things up by growing bored. I had done that once before.”
“If one is not happy, one has lost the very purpose of life...”
“We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.”
“I strongly believe that antisemitism and Jewish chauvinism can only be fought simultaneously.”

Source : Israel Shahak (1994). “Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years”, p.12, Pluto Press

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