#with

Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think that it's beyond them. But you can't succeed without practising at any sport. ↗

— Bobby Charlton

#beckham #beyond #desperate #footballer #his

العبقري يخترق حجاب المألوف .. ويخرج من أسْر العادة .! ↗

— مصطفى محمود

#intelligence #thinking-with-a-great-mind #intelligence

On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out both inside his country and in its cold war relations with the West, particularly the United States, began to unfold. ↗

— Stephen Cohen

#became #began #both #carry #cold

This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without love. That life has very little meaning without love. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#challenging #get #humans #into #know

An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth. ↗

— Juan Cole

#change #character #forth #laws #make

With Frat House, at times I needed to make music that would reflect what these fraternity brothers might actually listen to, but still keep it within the realm of a score; it still had to lead the viewer through the scene, or just help create the mood. ↗

— Jim Coleman

#brothers #create #fraternity #had #help

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#art #hope #i #iota #life

We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies without sex. This is the first time in human history that has been true, and it means, for example, we could do some extraordinary things. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#been #could #epoch #example #extraordinary

Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well. ↗

— Alan Cranston

#certain things #citizen #corporation #group #just

But I'm very happy to work within tight parameters, and when you know you have an actor for two days, and you have to get that work done in two days, that focuses the mind wonderfully. ↗

— John Crowley

#days #done #focuses #get #happy