Diego Corrales Quotes
My dad just wanted me to find something to do to keep me out of trouble. Boxing was the great escape.
Diego Corrales
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Great men marry great women.
Ilyasah Shabazz
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We had a few non-fiction books at home, but my dad was of the opinion that fiction was a complete and utter waste of time because it wasn't real - so what was the point of reading it?
Malorie Blackman
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When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.
Yaya Toure
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When I was 12, my feet were so small, I wore my sisters' glitter shoes. My dad would whoop me: 'You're not going to school now, you'll embarrass us!'
Young Thug
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I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.
J. K. Simmons
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
Maeve Binchy
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I only scream and scratch when something's only 'really good' or 'good', I want to be great, or let's go home.
Jeremy Renner
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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation. This is what I try to tell my students: this is one great thing that literature can do - it can make us identify with situations and people far away.
Chinua Achebe
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I was being very bad because I didn't know how to express myself. Music gave me an outlet to express myself and channel that anger.
Daystar Peterson
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The NYPD, they're the finest in the world.
Kimberly Guilfoyle
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I love creator-owned comics. Most of my favorite books these days are creator-owned, from stuff DC publishes, like 'Fables,' to books like 'Saga,' 'Fatale,' 'Hellboy,' and 'Courtney Crumrin.'
Kurt Busiek
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My dad just wanted me to find something to do to keep me out of trouble. Boxing was the great escape.
Diego Corrales