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I learnt that if we won, it didn't matter that I hadn't played. I had to keep working.
Fernando Torres
Matter
Had
Learnt
Won
Working
Keep
Played
Chelsea gave me what I was looking for when I left Liverpool trophies. I'll always see it as a success.
Fernando Torres
Success
Me
Looking
Gave
See
Trophies
Chelsea
Always
Left
Liverpool
For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.
Ferran Adria
Good
Me
Restaurant
Eat
Totally
Something
Thrill
Only
New
Go
Double
Enjoyment
Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
Ferran Adria
Time
Failure
Would
Would-Be
Percent
Something
Risk
I am not a multimillionaire. I don't own a yacht or a Ferrari. I live in a 60-square- metre flat. My needs are simple.
Ferran Adria
Needs
Simple
Own
Live
Yacht
Am
Ferrari
Flat
We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.
Ferran Adria
Food
You
Business
About
Never
Attention
Meals
Much
Much Attention
Paying
I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
Ferran Adria
Live
Sedentary
Without
Activity
I was 18 when I first started working at a restaurant. I was a dishwasher. I only got the job because I wanted to go to Ibiza for vacation, and washing dishes was the only job I could find.
Ferran Adria
Job
First
Find
Restaurant
Only
Could
Because
Got
Go
Wanted
Dishes
Dishwasher
Working
Washing
Vacation
Started
Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.
Ferran Adria
You
Humble
Important
Gone
Had
Feet
Friends
Far
Successes
Really
Your
Ground
Keep
Career
I wanted to take nouvelle cuisine further, to the point where we were breaking down the essence of taste and sensation, reconfiguring food as a series of really intense hits on the tongue.
Ferran Adria
Food
Down
Further
Point
Take
Cuisine
Were
Hits
Taste
Intense
Essence
Sensation
Where
Wanted
Breaking
Really
Series
Tongue
I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky.
Ferran Adria
Life
Day
Me
Dream
Able
Given
Stuff
Very
Lucky
Night
Need
I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.
Ferran Adria
Truth
Truth Is
Drive
Licence
Driver
Around
Get
Prefer
Taxi
Ever
Hardly
I don't worry about the things I can't change.
Ferran Adria
Change
Worry
About
Things
I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
Ferran Adria
Work
You
Better
Believe
Eat
Well
Even
Monkeys don't enjoy or appreciate flavours. Experts have told us that human beings are the only beings that can appreciate food at this higher level and the only living beings that cook.
Ferran Adria
Food
Enjoy
Living
Only
Higher
Higher Level
Human
Human Beings
Experts
Us
Cook
Beings
Level
Monkeys
Appreciate
There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
Ferran Adria
Though
Instance
Like
Fresh
Fish
Cultural
Regional
Prejudices
Many
Even
Staple
Chefs have only been able to work in restaurants, high-end cuisine. Why? Why haven't they been able to find other scenarios? For those chefs who want to do avant-garde cuisine, should they be finding their income in a restaurant?
Ferran Adria
Work
Other
Those
Find
Finding
Restaurant
Restaurants
Able
Only
Scenarios
High-End
Chefs
Cuisine
Been
Want
Avant-Garde
Should
Who
Income
Why
I am responsible only to God and history.
Francisco Franco
God
History
Responsible
Only
Am
Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons.
Francisco Goya
Nature
Together
Single
Painting
Circumstances
Characteristics
Poetry
Like
Most
Occur
Being
Different
Which
Persons
Chooses
Many
Universal
Brings
Imaginary
With all my work, I have not more, with my shares in the bank and the Academy, than twelve or thirteen thousand reales a year, and with all this, I am as contented as the happiest man on earth.
Francisco Goya
Work
Man
Year
Earth
All My Work
Thousand
More
Shares
Academy
Contented
Am
Than
Bank
Happiest
Happiest Man
Twelve
Thirteen
I have just returned from Arenas and feel very tired. His Excellency loaded me with a thousand honours; I have painted his portrait and that of his wife and boy and girl with unexpected success, for other artists had been there previously and not been successful.
Francisco Goya
Success
Me
Tired
Wife
Girl
Other
Honours
Thousand
Arenas
Excellency
Had
Feel
Returned
Boy
Been
His
Very
Unexpected
Just
Artists
Successful
Painted
Portrait
Loaded
I will give a proof to demonstrate with facts that there are no rules in painting and that oppression or servile obligation of making all study or follow the same path is a great impediment for the young who profess this very difficult art.
Francisco Goya
Art
Great
Obligation
Oppression
Path
Will
Young
Painting
Difficult
Rules
Follow
Proof
Give
Impediment
No Rules
Facts
Study
Making
Demonstrate
Very
Same
Profess
Who
I enjoy an easy jog. In the mountains, or the forest with my own thoughts, I can escape from the world for a bit.
Francisco Javier Gomez Noya
Thoughts
World
Mountains
Own
Enjoy
Bit
Easy
Jog
My Own
Forest
Escape
Although I come from the world of swimming... my strong point is the running race, and it is the one I enjoy the most. It's where I have had a slight edge over my rivals.
Francisco Javier Gomez Noya
World
Strong
Edge
Swimming
Enjoy
Slight
Running
Point
Rivals
Had
Over
Come
Most
Although
Where
Race
It's an error to count on winning a medal in the triathlon. With one race every four years, anything can happen, especially in a sport as tactical as this where it isn't always the strongest who wins.
Francisco Javier Gomez Noya
Every
Strongest
Tactical
Winning
Wins
Count
Sport
Always
Years
Error
Where
Happen
Anything
Race
Who
Medal
Four
In short, not only are things not what they seem, they are not even what they are called!
Francisco de Quevedo
Seem
Only
Short
Even
Things
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