George Best Quotes

I was probably the first footballer ever to have a pop-star profile, and my agent was right when he said we could put my name on stair rods and sell them to people in bungalows.

George Best

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I eat a lot of ice - isn't that ridiculous? I chew on ice, and I have maybe two diet sodas a day.

Jo Marie Payton

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The skylines of Buffalo, New York, and Toronto, Ontario, some 40 miles away, can be seen from the eight observation areas of the Seagram Tower.

Joan Lingard

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There is much to justify Turkey's reverence for Ataturk. He is the force that allowed Turkey to rise from the ashes of defeat and emerge as a vibrant new nation.

Stephen Kinzer

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I think every woman has this point in her life where she's like, 'I have a great job, great outfits and great friends, but something's missing.'

Tracy McMillan

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My parents are desperate, they keep saying: 'Please stop doing these angsty roles; make it easier for us.' So, yeah, I'd love to do some comedy.

Ruth Wilson

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I grew up in leafy suburbs in north and east Belfast, but if I had been born a mile down the road closer to the city centre, you might never heard of me.

Mike Nesbitt

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It is time we Georgians did not depend only on others, it is time we asked what Georgia will do for the world.

Mikheil Saakashvili

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I think we still have a chance if we continue with our work, if Iraq provides full cooperation, we should still be able to avoid a war.

Mohamed ElBaradei

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It's not just Ethiopia, but Africa in general - most of the media concentrates on what's not going well. But there is so much beauty there. When you go, it changes everything. It changes you, your life, and the way you see things. The challenge is changing the image of Africa that's been anchored in people for years now.

Liya Kebede

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The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our writing lives; our imaginations are freed, or stimulated, by the very prospect of companionship, quiet, a predictable and consoling routine.

Joyce Carol Oates

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It's almost like, when someone plays poker for the first time, they might be a professional poker player out of ignorance, just accidentally winning. That was how it felt in my first stand-up appearance.

Jonah Hill

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My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.

Desmond Llewelyn

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