I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester.
Hearts was the pinnacle of my career. After I left, it really was downhill. Hearts is the club I always associate myself with, and I'm proud to have played for them.
We should just get somebody from the left and the right and they should all throw bumper stickers at each other and the first one to cover the other one wins.
I've been criticized because I've had the temerity to speak out and done a couple of interviews since I left office. I don't find anything surprising about that.
In effect, the poor person is a rich person left to fend for him or herself, without the support of institutions that help the person to take 'good' decisions.
I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me.
Too often, a problem is allowed to fester until it reaches a crisis point... and the American people are left asking the question: what went wrong and why?
Writers, especially those of us with roots in other countries, are rarely left to ourselves. We are asked to declare our allegiances, or they are determined for us.
Back then when Chomsky and Herman wrote, the left, myself among them, all knew that something terrible was happening in Vietnam, though most now claim to remember otherwise.
It is difficult to determine the cause of grass fires. There is usually nothing left behind when we get there, like a cigarette or a gas can, for us to determine what started it.
I'm politically inclined towards the left, but I don't like to be in anyone's gang; I'm a bit of a loose cannon.
And the main thing was that I wanted to live in south Florida. That's why I left the Cowboys; to live in south Florida.
The north of Sweden is very socialist and poor. They feel left out and despise Stockholm in many ways because Stockholm has become new liberals and much more Americanized.
There will always be a certain element of extremists on either side, left or right, who no mainstream news outlet is going to satisfy.
Then again, if your right hand did know what your left hand was doing, wouldn’t that be kind of creepy?
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
My teacher told me I'd never amount to anything. I left high school at 15, after one year. But my real teachers were all the people around me. And I was a good listener.
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Young Lorenzo: They killed him? Young Michael: They took turns beating him... until there was nothing left of that kid to beat.
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.
