Yaya Toure Quotes

I represent my country, but I also represent the continent of Africa when I play in Europe. That's why it's important to try to achieve something big.

Yaya Toure

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: May 13, 1983

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I fought as an infantry Marine on one of the Vietnam War's harshest battlefields. After leaving the Marine Corps, I studied law and found a fulfilling career as an author and journalist. But again and again, I came back to the personal fulfillment that can only come from public service.

Jim Webb

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There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like that.' Now they just say, 'Pay him!'

Jim Carrey

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When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever.

Joe Dante

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Making sure that when my child went to school people were enlightened enough not to torture them, you know?

Jennifer Beals

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It's cool to meet your idols. It's a good opportunity to travel. Those kinds of things are good.

Meg White

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Only where there is sentient life can there be feelings of pleasure and pain, sorrow or joy.

Max Heindel

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I'm almost a vegetarian. I have a very rigid exercise routine. I'm up at 6 A.M.; I take a lot of ginseng.

John Tesh

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Lunch, for me, usually consists of lots of salad and sometimes smoked or grilled salmon, tofu, or feta cheese. I make sure to add a lot of greens to my salad. I accompany this with some dal.

Sridevi

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Never stop listening to people at all levels of the company. Be physically out and about so that you always have your finger on the pulse and know, at the ground level, the truth of how people are feeling.

Tricia Griffith

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You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.

Tony Hawk

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I don't like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I'm pleased with Pete's success but I don't like what they've done to it.

Roger Daltrey

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Sometimes I feel surrounded by this dark cloud, and it feels like I can't breathe. It's nervousness and I don't know what else.

Mikaela Shiffrin

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