Max Baer Quotes
I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!
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Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.
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Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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I just want to try writing for other people 'cause it's quite exciting.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
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I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
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Adieu les monstres! Adieu les saints! Adieu l'orgueil! Il n'y a que des hommes.
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When I was a kid and the other kids were home watching "Leave it to Beaver," my father and step-mother were marching me off to the library.
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The BP settlement is a victory for Alabama: not only for the amount of compensation we were able to secure, but also for avoiding many more years of litigation.
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They say you just stand over there, he'll say thank you and you walk back off and that's what I thought was gonna happen, but in my head, I had for five or six years known that he was gonna call me over.
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I'm pretty slapstick in my life but nobody sees that. You get typecast. I'm from New York and I have a sh*t-detector that's outspoken. I'm very streetwise and the producers detect that. So they get me on a movie and kill me. I go into their offices and I'm sure when I leave they say, 'You know, he'd be great to kill'. I've been killed every way you can imagine.
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I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.
