Clint Smith Quotes

When the U.S. team went on its historic run to the World Cup quarter-finals in 2002, I was thirteen years old. Each game in that run - the astonishing victory against Portugal, the resilient win over Mexico, even the gutsy but unlucky effort against the Germans - propelled me to push my other athletic interests aside and focus only on soccer.

Clint Smith

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I was never in the closet as an actor. It never occurred to me that my sexuality was something to be ashamed of.

Joe Mantello

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Putin wants to restore the Russian empire. That's his ambition; he's stated it many times.

John McCain

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I get offered loads of unusual stuff. I just don't do loads because I like staying at home a lot, and I'm a little bit lazy. I don't get that thing of going from film to film that people do. It would drive me nuts, and that level of fame is quite scary.

Sophie Okonedo

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I take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don't like to acknowledge that reality.

Michael Moore

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Ability is of little account without opportunity.

Lucille Ball

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I wouldn't like to grow old alone.

Christine McVie

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All who have taken it upon themselves to rule over others have incurred hatred and unpopularity for a time; but if one has a great aim to pursue, this burden of envy must be accepted, and it is wise to accept it.

Pericles

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The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

Pete Townshend

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I learned at an early age to be socially effective while practicing disappearing.

Sebastian Lelio

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I find that when I get on stage now, I don't want to perform a lot of my songs because they don't feel like me. So I want to make songs that are timeless.

Rihanna

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However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant.

Nobuo Uematsu

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Never was a man further from a partiality for Spain than I am. But I think I now have left them in a sincere and steady intention to cultivate the friendship of America.

Marquis de Lafayette

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