Joe Frazier Quotes
Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.
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I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
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People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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I'm constantly maxing out my Gmail account, and that is hard to do.
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I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
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I started with paragliding. Paragliding is taking off from mountains with a paraglider, with the possibility to fly cross-country, distance, just with the use of thermals to soar. Also, different aerobatic maneuvers are possible with a paraglider. From there, I started with skydiving.
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As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of - your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.
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I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.
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You're a hundred percent correct about our show being tops in quality.
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The seeing have the world in common.
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No one seems to realize how much we are driven by FEAR, the essential component of human personality. Everything else - from ambition to love to despair - derives in some way from this single powerful emotion.
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I know when I make a decision, I'm increasing my own personal work day.
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Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.
