Eduardo Galeano Quotes

The more the technocrats programme it down to the smallest detail, the more the powerful manipulate it, football continues to be the art of the unforeseeable. When you least expect it, the impossible occurs: the dwarf teaches the giant a lesson, and a scraggy, bow-legged black man makes an athlete sculpted in Greece look ridiculous.

Eduardo Galeano

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: uruguayan
  • Birth: September 3, 1940 - April 13, 2015

Topics

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I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

Joe Eszterhas

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

BridgeBurnWillCome

As a player, to me the Dodgers were the Yankees of the National League because... you either loved them or you hated them.

Joe Torre

MeLovedYouBecauseHatedYankees

I studied theater in college, and I really wanted to be an actress and play a lot of different roles. Then I made landing on a television comedy my main focus.

Jenna Fischer

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Comics are cool. I read 'Batman' and 'Spawn'.

Andrew Lawrence

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In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

Andre Maurois

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My favorite water cooler topic is fantasy football. I used to make fun of friends for doing it and now I'm obsessed.

John Krasinski

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The brain sits snugly inside the skull, but it's not a completely flush fit - there is still a layer of fluid between bone and soft tissue that serves as a natural shock absorber. Some shocks, however, can't be absorbed, and when the head gets clobbered too hard, the brain can twist or torque or rattle around inside its skeletal casing.

Jeffrey Kluger

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A highway sign used to welcome people to New Haven, birthplace of President George W. Bush. But it was vandalized so much, it was finally taken down for good.

Matt Apuzzo

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It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.

Michael Pitt

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Comedy is like music - there are genres and styles for every taste. Katy Perry is there for people who like frothy pop music. Metallica is there for people who like head-banging metal. And Susan Boyle is there for... well, I don't who the hell is listening to that freak of nature, but that's not the point. In art, there's something for everybody.

Lisa Lampanelli

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We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics.

Joseph Lancaster

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