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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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
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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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My most earnest of all pleas to singles is abandonment of the self, surrender to Christ of all unfulfilled longings, an unequivocal willingness to receive whatever God assigns, and a determination to practice the sacrificial principle of Isaiah 58:10-11. Life becomes not only far simpler, but surprisingly joyful and free.
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Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
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'Star Trek' put sci-fi on the map and changed television, and 'Battlestar' has changed it in another direction by making it a little more mainstream and acceptable to people who wouldn't normally watch sci-fi.
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It takes a while for audiences on film to see you as something different if they've seen you for so long as a specific character. It's up to the actor to be like, 'Look man, let's try something else,' even if it's an ultra-low-budget independent. People who rep you will keep going with whatever they can send you on.
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It's a sad state of affairs when we make fun of people for reading instead of making reading fun for people.
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I don't promote boxing, I promote people. Boxing is a catalyst to bring people together.
