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Mark Wahlberg, when I was in high school, people were like, 'You look like Marky Mark!' Then as I got older, they were like, 'You look like Donnie Wahlberg.' Now they're like, 'You look like Donnie Wahlberg's cousin from Massachusetts.'
Ike Barinholtz
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Actor
Cousin
High School
Mark
Massachusetts
People
School
Like
Now
Then
People School High School
Look People School
Look School High School
Were
High
Look
Got
Older
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I wanted pretty pictures of older women - women who are trying too hard but succeeding - pulling off an extreme look. What I didn't know would creep into the portraits was a vulnerability behind the strong facade that most of them wear.
Cindy Sherman
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Photographer
Facade
Older Women
Portraits
Pulling
Vulnerability
Extreme
Creep
Older
Pictures
Succeeding
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I do make a good ragu pasta, which everyone seems to like. Or that could be just me talking; who knows what they really think. I actually stole the recipe from my older sister Vera, who also loves to cook. I took all my recipes from her.
Taissa Farmiga
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Actress
Sister
Older Sister
Pasta
Seems
Talking
Cook
Loves
Older
Recipe
Stole
Took
Vera
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My daughter's just going to be really hip! My goal is to be as eco-conscious as possible: There's so much out there for parents who want to do that. I plan to keep her eco-friendly as she gets older. I think we all sort of have to do it.
Ana Ortiz
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Film Actress
Daughter
Mother
Thinking
Older
Hip
Plan
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I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older.
Jodie Foster
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Actress
Intense
Natural
Parent
Passionate
Play
Progression
Thinking
Anybody
Definitely
Drawn
Older
Parents
Natural Progression
Plays
Thirties
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Sometimes I can't believe I'm going to be 60. I always say there's no point moaning about getting older, when there's nothing you can do about it. But still, I do find it quite funny. I look at that number, 60, and I think, 'Really? Me?'
Twiggy
/
Model
Funny
Getting Older
Moaning
No Point
Always Believe Me
Nothing
Quite
Find
Getting
Still
Say
Number
Look
Older
Point
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The documentaries are one thing - I was highlighting someone else's work, someone else's genius. Once I had to find my own voice, I'm glad I was a little bit older and had some confidence and had all these great inspirations to draw from.
Robert B. Weide
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Screenwriter
Confidence
Documentaries
Glad
Highlighting
Little Bit
Voice
Work Great Voice
Draw
Older
Inspirations
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As I grew older and got into the late teens and early 20s, I wanted to be a voice of the people. You know, getting locked up all the time and going through so much oppression and seeing it all around myself, I wanted to be a voice for it.
Rza
/
Music Producer
Early 20s
Late
Locked
Locked Up
Oppression
Seeing
Teens
Voice
Time Myself People
Older
Late Teens
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One of the nice things about getting older is that you come to understand that you can integrate multiple aspects of your life together. When you're young, you think everything has to be binary, as that's exactly how you feel at that age.
Min Jin Lee
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Writer
Age
Binary
Getting Older
Multiple
Nice
Nice Things
Together
Young
Life Together Your
Everything
Things
Feel
Come
About
Understand
Aspects
How
Getting
Exactly
Older
Integrate
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Even as a little girl, my mom never wanted me to watch BET, but when I was at my grandparents' house, and my older cousins were there and I could watch it, I was infatuated with the idea that I could one day be a DJ or the host of a show.
Winnie Harlow
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Girl
Host
House
Infatuated
Mom Me Day
Bet
Cousins
Dj
Watch
Grandparents
Older
Little Girl
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In the beginning, we might have been focused on totally just music and being famous, just wanting to have fame and make hot music, but as we got older, we had to understand that this is a business and that our moves need to be calculated.
Prodigy
/
Rapper
Famous
Being Famous
Fame
Focused
Might
Totally
Understand
Beginning
Calculated
Older
In The Beginning
Wanting
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We just need more father figures and more older people to come and school these youth, because there will be a lost generation. And that's what a gang's supposed to be, protecting family and doing what you've got to do for your loved ones.
Jay Rock
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Rapper
Figures
Gang
Lost
Loved Ones
Older People
Youth
Loved
Generation
Older
Protecting
Supposed
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I would never bet against Peyton Manning. You know about the age and the neck and the strength. But I had George Blanda, and as he got older, he got smarter, and he just got rid of the ball quicker. I watch Peyton, and I see George Blanda.
John Madden
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Football Player
Age
Smarter
Against
Ball
Bet
Neck
Watch
George
Older
Quicker
Rid
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The older I get, the more of a recluse I turn into. I love the social aspect of my work. It's like a commune and gets very intense and very sociable. Then when I am not working, I shut myself away, so I can see myself living up a mountain.
Ben Daniels
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Actor
Aspect
Intense
Mountain
Recluse
Sociable
Love Work Myself
Commune
Working
Gets
Older
Shut
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Granted, I've changed internally as I've gotten older - I take it easy, I know when to stop and take care of myself, I laugh much more and with my belly and soul - but this comes from the confidence and acceptance that comes with maturity.
Iman
/
Confidence
Acceptance
Belly
Care
Changed
Easy
Granted
Maturity
Soul
Take Care
Gotten
Older
Laugh
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Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee
/
Martial Artist
Friendship
Love
Life
Marriage
True Love
Wisdom
Caught
Coal
Fire
Grows
Hot
Light
Love Is
Mature
Our Love
Friendship Love Love Is
Pretty
Becomes
Beginning
Often
Still
Flickering
Older
Hearts
In The Beginning
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My role models in the business were the older guys on my team when I first got there: Gray Scott, Adrian Smith, Roland Taylor. These were the guys who took me under their wing, and really schooled me in terms of what the business was about.
Julius Erving
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Basketball Player
Basketball
Gray
Models
Older Guys
Role Models
Schooled
Team
Wings
Adrian
Older
Guys
Terms
Role
Scott
Smith
Taylor
Took
Wing
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I was the youngest of six kids, and my brothers and sisters were kind of a lot older than me. And the one sister that was, like, in a close age range - she was five years older than me. She was my closest sister in age, and she was a loser.
Chelsea Handler
/
Comedian
Sister
Age
Brothers And Sisters
Five
Range
Brothers
Close
Older
Youngest
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It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.
Abraham Lincoln
/
16Th U.s. President
Aristocratic
Citizens
Distinction
Dollars
Friendless
Pride
Strange
Ten
Uneducated
Wealth
Boy
Amuse
Month
Astonish
Candidate
Older
Per
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Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin.
Tim Vine
/
Writer
Funny
Family
Dad
Brother
Chinese
Five
Mum
Older Brother
People
World
Younger Brother
Think
Younger
Family Dad World
Apparently
Them
Family Dad People
Colin
Either
Older
Must
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While the women of the older generation were thankful if only they succeeded in obtaining 'a work and a duty,' however monotonous and wearing it might be, the will of the younger generation for a pleasurable labour has fortunately increased.
Ellen Key
/
Writer
Thankful
Labour
Monotonous
Obtaining
Older Generation
Younger Generation
Younger
Fortunately
Generation
Older
Wearing
However
Increased
Pleasurable
Succeeded
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My older brother was the person who got me interested in science in general. He used to tell me what he learned in school. My first memory of mathematics is probably the time that he told me about the problem of adding numbers from 1 to 100.
Maryam Mirzakhani
/
Mathematician
Brother
Numbers
Older Brother
Problem
Adding
Time Science Me
General
Interested
Older
Science Time Me
Memory
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It's a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of slow down, and you realize, maybe this becomes harder to do as you get older. That's sort of a cautionary thing. I hope it doesn't happen to me.
Joel Coen
/
Careers
Harder
Becomes
Cautionary
Filmmakers
Funny Thing
Older
Slow
Realize
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I've become more introverted as I've got older. I used to be an outgoing person who joked around a lot, but as the amount of energy I expend by sharing my music has increased, I like to balance it by spending time by myself and recuperating.
Aloe Blacc
/
Singer-Songwriter
Amount
Balance
Energy
Introverted
Outgoing
Spending
Spending Time
Time Music Myself
Expend
Older
Increased
Sharing
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As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.
Dennis Prager
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Radio Host
Happy
Earning It
Given
Incapable
Lazy
People
Ungrateful
Wiser
Physically
Anything
Mentally
Get
Also
Become
Less
Earn
Older
Having
Realize
Utterly
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I played tennis. My older brother, Joseph, was a cello player, and I played the cello, but he was better than me at the cello, and he was also a better tennis player than me, so I was always like, 'I wish there was something that only I did!'
Diana Silvers
/
Brother
Older Brother
Tennis
Tennis Player
Wish
Always Me Better
Also
Did
Played
Cello
Better Always Me
Me Better Always
Older
Joseph
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When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.
Ben Stein
/
Actor
Kids
Sad
Dad
Advice
Father
Silly
Sleep
Smart
Dr
Older
Grown
Learned
Quote
Realized
Seemed
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I have an older sister named Haley and she wanted to be an actress. So I wanted to be an actress. It's really funny the way that some people don't give kids enough credit for like really being driven, and really wanting to do things so badly.
Hilary Duff
/
Actress
Funny
Kids
Sister
Credit
Driven
Funny Things
Giving
Older Sister
Enough People Way
Funny Enough People
Funny People Way
Badly
Named
Older
Some People
Wanting
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I grew up with older brothers, adore them, can't imagine going through life without them, and I definitely think I draw on that love when I'm writing about siblings. It's so powerful, the jump-in-front-of-a-train-to-protect-them kind of love.
Jandy Nelson
/
Writer
Adore
Grew
Imagine
Powerful
Sibling
Brothers
Definitely
Draw
Older
Older Brothers
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I was joked by a lot of older musicians because I was playing saxophone over trap beats or future bounce beats, and it just wasn't what you do. They were just like play some John Coltrane and get in the corner. But that's just not how I work.
Masego
/
Beats
Bounce
Coltrane
Saxophone
Corner
Older
John
Musicians
Trap
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I was born Pauline Matthews and grew up in Bradford as one of three children - I had an older brother, David, and an older sister, Betty. My father Fred worked in the mills as a textile weaving supervisor, and my mother, Mary, was a housewife.
Kiki Dee
/
Singer
Sister
Born
Brother
Children
Father
Grew
Housewife
Mary
Mills
Mother
Older Brother
Older Sister
Three
Weaving
Mother Father Children
David
Betty
Father Born Mother
Fred
Older
Supervisor
Textile
Worked
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I want to be Gary Barlow and peak when I'm 40. That's my plan - he's who I'm modeling myself on. Most people are completely beautiful when they're young, and then there's always a point when they get older where they say: 'Oh, what happened?!'
James Corden
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Actor
Gary
Modeling
Oh
Older
Peak
Plan
They Say
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I had five brothers and sisters. Four of them older, and some of them played instruments, and we would get together and have family recitals and raise money for the church. I belonged to a wonderful church community that encouraged me to sing.
Al Jarreau
/
Singer
Family
Brothers And Sisters
Church
Community
Five
Get Together
Instruments
Together
Wonderful
Played
Belonged
Brothers
Sisters
Encouraged
Older
Raise
Sing
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Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life.
Martha Beck
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Author
Happiness
Society
Desperation
Emotional
Getting Older
Hopelessness
Long
Long Life
Pain
Quiet
Sorrow
Symptoms
Youth
Living
Since
Assume
Often
Wrong
Getting
Older
Hand
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I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
Stephen Fry
/
Comedian
Boat
Comedy
Getting Older
Monitoring
Trying
Now
Again
As Far As
Closely
State
Could
Getting
Far
Older
Pushed
Terms
Taking
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The older books were quite light-hearted. But I think most of my novels do end on a deep note of pessimism. Shadows seem to be closing in. The final conclusion isn't that life is wonderful and everything is bright and cheery and in the garden.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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Novelist
Book
Closing
Conclusion
Garden
Light Hearted
Pessimism
Thinking
Wonderful
Bright
Final
Older
Note
Seem
Shadows
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I once did a gig at an office Christmas party in the showroom floor of a friend's father's home appliance shop in the suburbs of Melbourne. It was to a much older crowd. Without a microphone. Or a stage. With the queue for the buffet behind me.
Ronny Chieng
/
Christmas
Melbourne
Office
Party
Stage
Suburbs
Home Me Father
Appliance
Home Christmas Me
Buffet
Friend
Crowd
Floor
Gig
Older
Microphone
Shop
Queue
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The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.
Pam Ferris
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Character Actor
Faith
Big Stuff
Certain
Distrust
Mean
Open Minded
Should
Strong
Sure
Am
Less
Older
Opinions
View
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When I was young and growing up in New York, my parents took me to children's theater quite often - elaborate presentations of 'Goldilocks' and 'Rapunzel' for Upper East Side kids. As I grew older, they took me to adult theater, mostly musicals.
Peter Coyote
/
Actor
New York
East
East Side
Grew
Growing Up
Theater
Adult
Me Parents Children
Quite
Side
Me Children Parents
Elaborate
Older
Parents
Mostly
Musicals
Took
Upper
York
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Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.
Maya Angelou
/
Author
Truth
Cards
Children
Credit
Damn
Difficult
Happens
Honor
Parking
Most
Grow
Find
Too
Credit Cards
Marry
Older
Grow Up
Nerve
Spaces
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I was just very shy. I was never anxious to do talk shows, as I didn't know what to say. And I don't feel I have any inherent interest. But as I'm getting older, I feel I want to be able to share whatever I know if it means something to someone.
Christopher Lloyd
/
Anxious
Getting Older
Inherent
Share
Shy
Talk Shows
Older
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I was a quiet, nerdy kid living in the Bronx. I spent most of my teens in my room, taking apart electrical items to figure out how they worked before putting them back together, and listening to the music my four older sisters and parents played.
Grandmaster Flash
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Bronx
Electrical
Items
Nerdy
Quiet
Teens
Apart
Played
Sisters
Figure
Older
Parents
Room
Putting
Spent
Taking
Worked
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These days, as I am older and wiser, I realize that there is a danger in becoming an icon, as people can see you as remote and untouchable, and they are less willing to tolerate you doing things that don't fit with their preconceived idea of you.
Giorgio Armani
/
Fashion Designer
Becoming
Danger
Tolerate
Willing
Wiser
I Am People Doing
Less
Days
Untouchable
Older
Icon
Preconceived
Realize
Remote
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One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness.
David Bohm
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Physicist
Abstract
Commitment
Deeper
Essentials
Features
Needed
Reality
Theory
Unbroken
Wholeness
Basic
Forms
Commitments
Derived
Drops
Essential
Older
New Kind
Prevails
Recovers
Sees
Theories
Thus
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My older brother went into another city for college, and I felt like I wanted to stay in my home town to be close to my parents. Looking back, that was the best decision. My father passed away in 2010 and I got to enjoy those four years with him.
Eric Yuan
/
Brother
Decision
Home Town
Looking Back
Older Brother
Close
Older
Passed
Town
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My grandparents and my mom prayed the rosary a lot, and later in life, I had a priest friend of mine teach me centering prayer, based on Father Thomas Keating's work. That led to practicing different kinds of meditation off and on as I got older.
Tim Ryan
/
U.s. Representative
Different Kinds
Meditation
Rosary
Teach
Life Work Mom
Based
Friend
Older
Led
Mine
Prayed
Priest
Thomas
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When I first learned guitar - when I was 14 or 15 - I had an older cousin who showed me some stuff. And he was into all these tunings. He was showing me tunings that people like David Crosby or Neil Young used - like dropped D and open D tunings.
Lee Ranaldo
/
Musician
Cousin
Crosby
Guitar Me People
David
Dropped
Older
Neil
Neil Young
Showing
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A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything to do with the older Aristotelian universals in which the idea of a chair subsumes all its individual manifestations.
Fredric Jameson
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Doe
Ideas
Individual
Littles
Universe
Named
Chair
Current
Further
Older
Slowly
Nor
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The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children.
Walter Cronkite
/
Journalist
Death
Opportunity
Calling
Moments
Obituary
Older Generation
Remembered
Special
Beyond
Rare
Churchill
Itself
Times
Explain
Gave
Generation
Older
Rises
Sharing
Watershed
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I learned to play football in the streets. Every day of school, everyone came and played football. The street is a good school, and you learn many things there - resiliency, how to play against older players, and how to put up with or dodge kicks.
Sergio Aguero
/
Soccer Player
Dodge
Football
School
Against
Everyone
Came
Every Day
Street
Older
Learn
Put
Play Football
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