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Jermain Defoe Quotes

It doesn't matter who you are, football's a business. At some stage you're going to have to leave a football club; that's just normal.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: english
Birth: October 7, 1982

Topics

Business Football You Matter Stage

There is pressure when you have a very big book like 'Shadow Divers' to follow up with something big. But you can't let that pressure determine what you do. You just look for the best stories, and when you find a great one, you tell it.

Great Best Shadow Book Pressure You

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

John W. Gardner

Education Today Flowers Plants Grow

'An Obedient Father' is perhaps the novel that, some might say, Arundhati Roy had wanted to write when she wrote 'The God of Small Things.'

Father God Small Things Small Say

There is an element in some of my work that has to do with being an outsider, feeling like not part of the dominant culture.

Work Culture Feeling Outsider Being

Political grandstanding might make for great soundbites for the evening news, but it will do nothing to help the people that go to work every day knowing that they're one health emergency away from bankruptcy. It will do nothing to help the hospitals struggling to keep their doors open under the crushing cost of uncompensated care.

Work Health Great Day People Help

I'm not good with pickup lines or flirting. I don't have that kind of self-confidence or natural charisma.

Good Self-Confidence Kind Natural

I taught myself to read music at a very young age, so when I started to take lessons in school, the teachers used to give me other instruments to keep me busy, because I was more advanced than the other kids.

Music Age Myself School Me Busy

When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and they talked about the war like it was the Kraken - you know, this huge beast that roamed the earth during their formative years.

War Parents Growing Up You Earth Up

I've taken challenges with the big risk that it can all go wrong. But that's what I like and I'd rather do that than be safe all the time.

Time Challenges Wrong Go Risk Big

About the time you might start to think that science fiction - the real stuff, not the species of fantasy that goes under the name - is really dead, along comes a story by Cory Doctorow.

Science Time Start Story Think Name

No one forgets the presence of the camera, no matter how long it's there.

Joshua Oppenheimer

Camera Long Matter Presence How

Our Congress passes laws which subsidize corporation farms, oil companies, airlines, and houses for suburbia. But when they turn their attention to the poor, they suddenly become concerned about balancing the budget and cut back on the funds for Head Start, Medicare, and mental health appropriations.

Coretta Scott King

Health Start Mental Health Attention

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