Don King Quotes

You can be the greatest guy in the world but if you ain't got no heart, you ain't gonna survive.

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• I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Time
  • School
  • Bad

• We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!

  

  Tara Strong
  • Music
  • Scripts
  • Begins

• Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • Kids

• Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.

  

  Vern Buchanan
  • You
  • Race
  • Lose

• It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.

  

  Taylor Dye
  • People
  • Music
  • Bad

• The degree that these scenes went to... there was a couple of days I was upset... I'd have to hurry back to the girls in the makeup trailer and have a bit of a cry because it messes with your head.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Couple
  • Makeup
  • Cry

• I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

  

  J. Cole
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Underdog

• It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Time
  • Stop

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Heart
  • Growth
  • Economy

• I'm very interested in the idea of a large group of people who come together quite suddenly, but not illogically, for reasons that could not have been anticipated.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Together
  • Group

• Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Business
  • Black
  • Small

• Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Up
  • Today
  • Fight

• Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Pain
  • Makes
  • Chicken

• A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Nature
  • Plant
  • Flowers

• A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Relationship
  • Conversation

• In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Lost
  • Purpose
  • Practice

• The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.

  

  Jean Rostand
  • Doubt

• Everything that I had done creatively related to two or three incidents that happened to me when I was a child that I'd forgotten. Everything, absolutely everything.

  

  Pete Townshend The Who
  • Done

• Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Life
  • World
  • Thinking

• Once you let yourself grow close to someone, cutting the ties could be painful.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Cutting
  • Grow
  • Painful

• My mission is to get on the stage and say, 'Listen, I'm a woman, I'm free, I'm a mother, I'm a lover, I'm a friend; I'm shattered by men most of the time, but I'll keep falling in love with them because it's the most thrilling thing in the world; that's what makes me human.'

  

  Lou Doillon
  • Time
  • World
  • Men

• You can be the greatest guy in the world but if you ain't got no heart, you ain't gonna survive.

  

  Don King
  • World
  • Heart
  • Guy