Don King Quotes
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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Conor McGregor is a tough competitor. He proved throughout the years in the UFC that he can fight standing up.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
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My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
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We don't want to repeat the unintended consequences that surfaced following the NAFTA agreement.
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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
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The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.
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Its vast distribution channels offer us a leg-up in our strategy to expose our hotel properties to a broad customer base.
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If I love a comic but they have an off night, who am I to say they should have taken out this or added that? It doesn't work that way... I have no interest in hurting people's feelings.
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I've always been able to survive by writing, though.
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I have to brush my teeth before I go on stage otherwise I don't feel smart enough.
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I don't promote boxing, I promote people. Boxing is a catalyst to bring people together.
