"My fellow players are sometimes occupying the spaces I want to play in. That forces me to adjust my runs, based on the position of my fellow players. Unfortunately, they're often playing in my zones. I think that's a shame"

-- Robin van Persie

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“We should always be practical, realistic and optimistic.”
“And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture.”
“No, I only think you cruel, as I said the other day. Maybe not intentionally cruel; but you seem to be forcing me into disclosures which can result in nothing; as if you would have me bare a wound for the pleasure of looking at it, without the intention or power of healing it.”
“The German system is way less fair than it is expected to be, and the difference is becoming bigger. The private system, with its privilege to pay doctors and hospitals better, is basically putting the whole system at jeopardy, because many first-class hospitals and first-class physicians are wasting their time on trivial cases of privately insured and are no longer accessible for the difficult cases from the public system, despite [the fact] that the hospitals and also the education of those professionals is paid for by public money.”

Source : "Frontline", www.pbs.org. October 25, 2007.
“There's nothing fashionable about a dead animal that has been cruelly killed just because some people think it looks cool to wear.”
“Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.”
“If you write well, you don't have to dress funny.”
“How do you say a thing at all, at the end of the day? How do you say whatâ€™s in your mind? And as soon as you say what you actually have in mind, itâ€™s wrong, isnâ€™t it?”

Source : "A life in poetry: Ciaran Carson". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2009.

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