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Nwankwo Kanu Quotes

When you're growing up, you have your heroes, and you hear about people going off to other countries to play football, but when you're so young, you're not thinking about that. You just play. No referee, no rules.

Nwankwo Kanu

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: nigerian
Birth: August 1, 1976

Topics

Football People Growing Up Thinking

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

Andrew Young

Learn You Living Talk Nonsense Even

I love festivals because I feel like I'm more of a movie fan than a person who's in the film industry.

Melanie Lynskey

Love Feel Festivals Person More Fan

Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up.

Ann Richards

Children Myself Flying Drawing You

Always my collections are made of different influences.

Jean Paul Gaultier

Always Influences Different Made

I want the best people, not just on the banking side but on innovation and technology.

Ana Patricia Botin

Technology Innovation Best People

As I travel around the country, I am inspired by leaders who know that offering paid leave - whether sick time or family leave - isn't just the right thing to do: it's essential to building an economy that works for everyone.

Tom Perez

Family Time Travel I Am Building

There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.

Mary J. Blige

Life Be Strong Strong Trials Matter

After I perform 'My Girlfriend's Boyfriend,' it takes a lot out of me emotionally; and, at the end of it, I feel like I know the audience and the audience knows me. It's this weird unspoken bond that we'll kind of always have with each other.

Mike Birbiglia

Me Bond End Weird Feel Know

It doesn't sound that cool to say it, but I still get nervous for any show. But it's different degrees - playing a small basement of a club versus playing a festival like Firefly or Bonnaroo. The feeling is, 'Crap, I'm about to be blasted in the face,' and once you get started, then it's like, 'OK, I've done this before. I know what I'm doing.'

Josh Dun

Cool Small Face Doing You Know

Jazz and Cuba are inexorably tied together; it's not a branch from a tree. Latin music is part of the root of jazz.

Arturo O'Farrill

Music Tree Together Jazz Cuba Root

I didn't really buy LPs or go to concerts.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Go Buy Concerts Really

It's fun to have money, but the more money I get, the less interesting it becomes. If you don't have very much, you have to think about it. If you are starving, you become interested in food. If you are struggling to pay the bills, money becomes tragically important.

Sebastian Junger

Food Money Fun Think Interesting