I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the artistic beauty of soccer when played skillfully.
Eduardo Galeano's quote expresses a profound appreciation for soccer, comparing its elegance and flow to that of a dance. This metaphor conveys how skillful play transforms the game into an art form, where movement and precision create an aesthetically pleasing experience, akin to a performance rather than just a sport.
In practice
In a speech about sportsmanship, one might quote, 'I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty' to illustrate the aesthetic aspects of the game.
Utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer; it moves two steps further away. I walk another ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps further away. As much as I may walk, I'll never reach it. So what's the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking.
It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his job on the line.
We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers of answers, and we have other grave defects unpardonable by a system that believes death, like money, improves people.
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The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.
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I film normal-life subjects in natural settings that some people would consider uncinematic. But what I want to show is nature itself, as the truth of life.
Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see landscapes which otherwise would remain unknown to us like the landscapes of the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists.
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All my works are games, serious game.
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