George Best Quotes

I can remember earning £5,000 a game playing for Hibs at the end of the Seventies. They let me commute from London, train on the Friday and play on Saturday. That lasted until my friends at the Inland Revenue decided to take two-thirds. That wasn't very entertaining for me.

George Best

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: May 22, 1946 - November 25, 2005

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In life, people sometimes make rotten deals.

Jeanne Calment

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A fly with a brain the size of a salt grain has the behavioral repertoire nearly as complex as a much larger animal such as a mouse. That's a super-interesting problem from an engineering perspective.

Michael Dickinson

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Empowerment isn't a buzzword among leadership gurus. It's a proven technique where leaders give their teams the appropriate training, tools, resources, and guidance to succeed.

John Rampton

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Reforms aimed at increasing an economy's flexibility are always hard - and even more so at a time of weak growth - because they require eliminating protections for vested interests in the short term for the sake of greater long-term prosperity.

Michael Spence

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When I create something, it's got to be special, and it can't just be to throw something out there because I feel like I'm Missy.

Missy Elliott

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I was brought up a Catholic and was an altar boy.

Chris Ofili

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Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

Coco Chanel

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In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever.

William J. Clinton

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Science fiction still is an idea genre.

Sheri S. Tepper

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I definitely take after my dad, looks-wise. But my mum is my greatest inspiration. All the women in my family are amazing. They're hilarious. I love funny people.

Shari Sebbens

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The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.

Thomas Shadwell

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I guess I've always been quite interested in the Situationists' ideas about urbanism and spectacle and how we move through life.

Rirkrit Tiravanija

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