"Football is not, in my view, a sport: it is somewhere between a business racket and a mental illness. I associate it with all the worst aspects of our society - violence, drunkenness, drugs, racism, exploitation, greed and stupidity; and that's just for starters."

-- Simon Heffer

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“If we're doing this for ten hours, I'm going to need a little incentive to stay motivated." Patch hooked his elbow around my neck and dragged me into a kiss. "Every time you strip my sword, I owe you a kiss. How's that sound?" I bit my lip to keep from giggling. "That sounds really dirty." Patch waggled his eyebrows. "Look whose mind just rolled into the gutter. Two kisses per strip. Any objections?" I pulled on an innocent face. "None whatsoever.”
“I used to believe that love and happiness were synonymous. I was a fool. Love intensifies all emotions. Nothing is so painful o so sweet, so thrilling or so desperate... Pleasure is, after all, a luxury. It's love thats essential. You are never so alive as when you love, never so alert, intuitive, attentive, never so smart or so compassionate.”
“The work of creation is never without travail.”
“The nice thing about growing up in that kind of environment is you were exposed to so much -- music, plays, art exhibits, rock concerts.”
“It's nice to be one of the most beautiful people.”
“At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Baalbec and Palmyra.”
“There are so many projects that you go into hoping the story works, and here comes a new third act and that kind of thing.”

Source : Interview With Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. February 18, 2005.
“Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.”

Source : Elias Canetti (1962). “Crowds and power: Masse und Macht]”

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