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.
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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.
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I was a huge ham in school in Atlanta.
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Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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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.
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Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.
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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.
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Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
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I'm a fan of action movies.
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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.
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Even when I'm playing a lawyer or a doctor, I want to play a person. A human being.
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I began to feel lighthearted. Don’t ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe.
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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.
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L'amour, c'est l'espace et le temps rendus sensibles au coeur.
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The government of an exclusive company of merchants is, perhaps, the worst of all governments for any country whatever.
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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.
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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.
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Germany is not like Ireland or Denmark. It is a country where the domestic market counts much more than the external market.
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We will build new roads, and highways, and bridges, and airports, and tunnels, and railways all across our wonderful nation.
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I did a couple comedies to balance myself as an actor and balance how audiences see Donnie Yen as an actor, and I would even say as a celebrity or icon, to some fans. I want to show that I'm not Terminator.
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I never thought my private life would be newsworthy.
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For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.
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Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.
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Don't be afraid to get your hands in the dirt. Buy gloves if you are squeamish about it.
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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.
