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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• It's been the most creatively liberating thing I've ever done and so I'm bringing some of that mad enthusiasm to Marvel for the next couple of years as they let me loose on some Marvel Universe titles you'll be hearing about soon.

  

  Mark Millar
  • Done
  • Universe
  • Couple

• When someone drew a picture of Pope John wearing an Avis 'We try harder' button, those words no longer meant which car rental to patronize, and yet some of the overtones from its original meaning are there and make a contribution to the new situation.

  

  Corita Kent
  • Words
  • Car
  • Picture

• The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Road
  • Fire

• If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff.

  

  Neil LaBute
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Scary

• Everyone has issues, and I'm not someone who likes to burden people.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • People

• I've always wanted to produce a whole album for an artist.

  

  Kaytranada

• Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For though from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Sadness
  • Twilight
  • I Hope

• The online musical universe has become Balkanized, with many sites focusing on minute niches. That works well for reaching very specific demographics, which is wonderful for advertising, but it flies in the face of the common wisdom that people's tastes have become more diverse as music of any description has become a mouse-click away.

  

  Michael Azerrad
  • Common
  • Musical
  • Description

• 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