Joe Frazier Quotes

My left eye went when I was young. I was working the speed bag, and some steel went in the eye and scratched it to pieces. I was kinda blind in that eye.

Joe Frazier

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• Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I was a huge ham in school in Atlanta.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • School
  • Huge
  • Atlanta

• Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.

  

  Walter Legge
  • Quality
  • Democracy
  • Achievement

• She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Support
  • Mom
  • Kid

• Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • World
  • Women
  • Silence

• Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record straight. Australia will be my 100th start, and I aim to mark the milestone with a cracking performance. It could even be celebrated with a victory.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Up
  • Start
  • Victory

• Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Books
  • Public
  • Quarrels

• I'm a fan of action movies.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Action
  • Movies
  • Fan

• I first thought about becoming a writer after the age of 30, which is rather late, I'd say. In my 20s, I wasn't especially good at anything, and I didn't have a lot of experiences. I was just a young woman without a good job.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • Good
  • Job
  • Age

• Even when I'm playing a lawyer or a doctor, I want to play a person. A human being.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Play
  • Lawyer
  • Doctor

• I began to feel lighthearted. Don’t ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Universe
  • Evil
  • Dark

• They all attributed the peaceful dominion of religion in their country mainly to the separation of church and state. I do not hesitate to affirm that during my stay in America I did not meet a single individual, of the clergy or the laity, who was not of the same opinion on this point.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Country
  • America
  • Single

• L'amour, c'est l'espace et le temps rendus sensibles au coeur.

  

  Marcel Proust

• The government of an exclusive company of merchants is, perhaps, the worst of all governments for any country whatever.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Country

• Clavain saw it all with sudden, heart-stopping clarity: all that mattered was the here and now. All that mattered was survival. Sentience that bowed down and accepted its own extinction-no matter what the long-term arguments, no matter how good the greater cause-was not the kind of sentience he was interested in preserving.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Good
  • Long
  • Heart

• Nicole and I worked together on Dogville and we were friends when we started this. That laid the groundwork for our fabulous relationship on screen and off.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Friends
  • Together
  • Relationship

• We will build new roads, and highways, and bridges, and airports, and tunnels, and railways all across our wonderful nation.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Nation
  • Build

• I had a bulletin board in my bedroom with every picture of Leo ever taken - keep in mind, this was pre-'Titanic' and pre-Us Weekly, practically pre-Internet. I had to buy 'The Leonardo DiCaprio Album' and cut out my favorite pics.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Mind
  • Taken
  • Picture

• Our prayers can be more than empty wishes, vain hopes or feeble aspirations – but only when they are prayed from faith-filled hearts.

  

  Bill Hybels
  • Faith
  • Wishes

• If we rationalize our problems when He points them out, we will spend less and less time meditating because we won't want to face God in that area of our lives.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • Time
  • God

• Britain's FTSE 100 stock index has not just recovered from its post-vote low close below 6,000. It has surged to close at nearly 6,600. That's its highest closing value yet of 2016, and within reach of its all-time highs.

  

  Kelly Evans
  • Time
  • Value
  • Stock

• If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.

  

  Brad Sherman
  • Children
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• The hardest thing [for me] is to 'just' agree, and that is what sparks creativity, the feeling that something can be better, the feeling that something's missing, the feeling that something's needed.

  

  Kanye West
  • Feeling
  • Creativity
  • Missing

• My left eye went when I was young. I was working the speed bag, and some steel went in the eye and scratched it to pieces. I was kinda blind in that eye.

  

  Joe Frazier