"Behind every footballing tough guy there lurks a mincing aesthete with a love of art for art's sake, football for football's sake. A win without art is somehow less than a victory; less, almost, than a beautiful defeat. In football, the romantic and the pragmatist are ever at war in the same breast. Beauty, it must be understood here, is not Barcelona's aim but their method. And last night they were ready to use this method at every opportunity - quick-fire passing of wit and purpose in the danger areas, seeking always to produce an unlooked-for player in a position of threat."

-- Simon Barnes

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“Sometimes we have to actually say, I think you're really funny, but none of your jokes are going to make it on the air. So just answer my questions. Seriously.”
“When I was little I went to a Baptist Church with my grandmother. My earliest memories were of her falling out in the middle of the floor and they had to cover her with a white sheet. Every time we went to church it was scary. The music would start playing, and then everybody would start running and shouting and hollering and screaming.”
“We have a thriving subculture of 'independent' American movies that makes an impact on America as a whole roughly equivalent to that of a the modern literary novel. These are the films sincere viewers marry, whereas, once upon a time, movies were a lifetime of one night stands.”
“I like happy sets. Happy sets are good, and I think people feel comfortable on them.”

Source : "RT Interview: David Yates on Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince". Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. July 15, 2009.
“I have found the one whom my soul loves,”
“If you don't like what someone has to say, argue with them.”
“people think they have to be good before they can act good. But ... it works just as well the other way 'round.”

Source : Cecil Dawkins (1995). “Rare Earth”, Fawcett Books
“I know that all things are possible through Jesus Christ.”

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