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.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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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?
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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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.
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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.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.
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I do feel I'm responsible to carrying on the music. That's what I was charged with as a kid. When I was a little girl, I was told, 'When we are gone' - when you're a kid, you never think they'll ever be gone - 'you have to keep the music alive, the Carter Family songs, and add your own songs.'
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This assumption that the blue collar crowd is not supposed to read it, or a farmer in his overalls is not to read poetry, seems to be dangerous if not tragic.
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Socrates... said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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Without poetry the soul and heart of man starves and dies.
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You can be the greatest guy in the world but if you ain't got no heart, you ain't gonna survive.
