Alan Shearer Quotes

When I was a young boy I wanted to play for Newcastle United, I wanted to wear the number nine shirt and I wanted to score goals at St James' Park. I've lived my dream and I realise how lucky I've been to have done that.

Alan Shearer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: August 13, 1970

Topics

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We have problems, terrible problems, but our problems are human problems.

John Cassavetes

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Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

Jean Giraudoux

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I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual formations of modernity. Calling this a postmodern age reproduces the modernist assumption that history must be policed by periods.

Stanley Hauerwas

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I learned by standing in the wings and watching established acts on stage.

Shirley Bassey

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I'm getting paid to do what I got in trouble for in the 7th grade. I absolutely love what I do and thank my lucky stars for twenty-five years of full-time employment in this business.

Rob Paulsen

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Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business.

Rupert Murdoch

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Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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We write songs that hit different people at different ages where they live.

Jay DeMarcus

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Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.

Jay Griffiths

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Some of the best lessons that I've ever learned are on a ball field - basketball, football, baseball, golf. And I learned great lessons from my coaches - being on time, being mentally tough, having some discipline, and being part of a team.

Jon Gruden

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It's just this feeling of when you're a kid, you have these ideas about the world and about people in your life that don't always hold up as you get older and start to realise that things are more complex than you might've realised. That's always a big part of a coming-of-age story.

Jon Watts

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I really do think that putting expectations on a holiday is setting yourself up for failure.

Delilah

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