Deontay Wilder Quotes

I was born a leader, never a follower. I never felt peer pressure. If the group goes left, I go right.

Deontay Wilder

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• If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Long
  • Done
  • Job

• I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • World
  • Believe
  • Lead

• In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.

  

  Tabitha King
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Literature

• It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Time
  • Black

• When I was in law school, there was a used book store nearby. I picked up a Harlequin romance and read it. It was stress relieving.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Up
  • School
  • Book

• Part of my life is spent designing in urban centers, and part of my life has been spent in factories. But the other part of my life is spent in nature.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Life
  • Nature
  • My Life

• I always find filming stressful. I get very caught up thinking about my character - 'Am I doing it right? Should it be done this way?'

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Done

• I think all girls in the world wish they were a Parisian girl - that sort of effortless chic confidence and comfort in their own skin.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • World
  • Girl
  • Wish

• There is no such thing as a free lunch.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Free
  • Lunch
  • Free Lunch

• I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Why
  • Happy
  • Know

• Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Love
  • Clothes
  • Luxury

• Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations.

  

  Achille Maramotti
  • Years
  • Generations
  • Five

• One thing most people would agree is that climate change would add further uncertainties to our already quite tight water supply situation in China.

  

  Ma Jun
  • People
  • Change
  • Water

• My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how desperately I don't want the story to end.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Book
  • Want
  • End

• The Royal Society view is completely apolitical: it will judge anything based on the evidence. One of the big strengths of the Society is that is it widely perceived as impartial and above the fray. We'd like to make sure it stays that way.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Society
  • Judge
  • View

• I think the way to be an influential journalist is to be accurate and to be fair and to get things right and to really characterize things in an honest way, versus being really snarky or cheerleading.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Think
  • Way
  • Right

• Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.

  

  Dan Barber
  • Bank
  • Soil
  • Vegetables

• I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Life
  • Important
  • Me

• The rainbow is such a remarkable phenomenon of nature, and its cause has been so meticulously sought after by inquiring minds throughout the ages, that I could not choose a more appropriate subject for demonstrating how, with the method I am using, we can arrive at knowledge not possessed at all by those whose writings are available to us.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Nature
  • Knowledge
  • Choose

• A people denied history is a people deprived of dignity.

  

  Ali Mazrui
  • People
  • History
  • Dignity

• We need to expect to pay a price if we want to make our lives better, but more importantly, we need to expect to pay a price for just leaving things as they are.

  

  Jane Powell
  • Want
  • Needs
  • Leaving

• It is a little out of touch to presume that someone wants to follow your every observation and insight over the course of hundreds of pages without any sort of payoff. That's why writing isn't a one-way street. You have to give something back: an interesting plot, a surprise, a laugh, a moment of tenderness, a mystery for the reader to piece together.

  

  Christopher Bollen
  • Together
  • Interesting
  • Laughing

• I was born a leader, never a follower. I never felt peer pressure. If the group goes left, I go right.

  

  Deontay Wilder