Billy Joe Saunders Quotes
I'm fighting for the Commonwealth title on Saturday and I believe I'll be ready for a world title shot in the next 18 months.
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
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There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about.
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Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.
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You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.
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Because many of us have been in game shows for some time, there's always someone around who can share a story of Johnny O or Jay Stewart that I never heard.
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I'm the only gay person my parents know.
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You are never to allow a shadow of doubt to enter your mind that the Creator intended you to win in life's battle.
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God is only a great imaginative experience.
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I was invited to L.A. when I was 16 for a weekend-long songwriting session by a writer I had met through my voice teacher in Pittsburgh. My first hit, 'Hide Away,' was one of the songs written during those sessions. It was played for a radio rep who then started a new label; the song got a pretty organic start at radio and then took off.
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Do not ask God the way to heaven; He will show you the hardest way.
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When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
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Every state aspiring to be part of the free world, able to decide its own destiny, deserves its chance. They may, in a not too distant future, contribute to all of us in ways we cannot imagine today.
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What's amazing is that I'm recognized all over the world through 'Red Dwarf.' British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse. It makes you feel like a rock star!
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I'm fighting for the Commonwealth title on Saturday and I believe I'll be ready for a world title shot in the next 18 months.
