"When I was a child, it was my dream to be a professional footballer. When I was 14 I visited Milan's San Siro stadium and remember thinking how unbelievable it was. From then onwards I vowed that one day I would be playing there - and I am very proud that I achieved this and also for everything else I have managed to achieve in football."

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Source : "Shevchenko want to end career on a high". edition.cnn.com. December 9, 2011.

Andriy Shevchenko

#Football Quotes #Dream Quotes #Children Quotes

“Growing up, I loved Bill Cosby and Bob Newhart. They are a big reason I'm a storyteller because they are two of the best.”
“One of the things that gets me up in the morning is knowing that customer expectations are always rising, and I find that very exciting.”
“In battle, combatants engaged in war against America get no due process and may lawfully be killed. But citizens not in a battlefield - however despicable - are guaranteed a trial by our Constitution. No one argues that Americans who commit treason shouldn't be punished. The maximum penalty for treason is death. But the Constitution specifies the process necessary to convict.”
“If you want to curry favor with a politician, give him credit for something someone else did.”
“The essence of what exists in the U.S. is not democracy but capitalism - imperialism. What the U.S. spreads around the world is not democracy, but imperialism and political structures to enforce that imperialism.”
“Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.”

Source : Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.88, Canongate Books
“We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.”

Source : Alain Badiou, Nicolas Truong (2012). “In Praise Of Love”, p.32, Profile Books
“Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.”

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