John Barnes

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Pain only matters when it happens to someone important.
- John Barnes
Collection: Pain
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I would like to lose some of the weight that I have put on since I stopped playing football.
- John Barnes
Collection: Football
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Useless people are not improved by giving them the impression that they are useful.
- John Barnes
Collection: People
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Can I ask you something personal?” Six inches but I tell everyone eight.
- John Barnes
Collection: Eight
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If Glenn Hoddle had been any other nationality, he would have had 70 or 80 caps for England.
- John Barnes
Collection: Football
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This is not the way these tales end," Calliope said firmly. "This is not the way that things end when they get to be tales," Amatus said, "but since ours is not yet told, we cannot count on it. There were a hundred dead princes on the thorns outside Sleeping Beauty's castle, and I'm sure many of them were splendid fellows.
- John Barnes
Collection: Sleep
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... once you were in, they put a note in your file that said you were in therapy, and all your teachers saw that file. They might as well have tattooed CRAZY on your forehead. The next year every teacher would be watching you for the first weird thing you did—and has there ever been a kid who never does anything an adult considers weird?
- John Barnes
Collection: Teacher
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I think everyone always has time to suffer.
- John Barnes
Collection: Thinking
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If you look at the last decade of global temperature, it's not increasing.
- John Barnes
Collection: Looks
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I’ve been thinking,” he said. “Which is not an easy thing for a teacher to admit to.
- John Barnes
Collection: Teacher
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Marti wasn't the type to give up without a fight, especially not if she was very afraid - some people are like that. They lean into the fear.
- John Barnes
Collection: Giving Up
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There's a rule or something that if a girl can crack you up, you have to do what she says.
- John Barnes
Collection: Girl
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You know, when someone hurts my feelings, somehow it does not comfort me to know that it was deliberate... On the other hand, knowing that someone else thinks they are assholes helps a great deal." "I think that's some kind of rule for the universe.
- John Barnes
Collection: Hurt