Joe Frazier Quotes
There are places on a man's head that are as hard as a rock. Your head's actually stronger than your body. And you don't have too many instruments up there workin'.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
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The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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I really can't believe what a state the Pyramids are in. I thought they had flat rendered sides, but when you get up close, you see how they are just giant boulders balanced on top of each other, like a massive game of Jenga that has got out of hand.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
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I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.
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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
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The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?
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Every night that I put my head on the pillow, I go to sleep knowing that I can do more. I'm working toward perfection. I'm trying to be the best ever.
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When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.
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When someone doesn't react to changes, the changes turn against him.
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I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.
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I am Sam. Sam-I-Am.
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We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
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As an older dad who grew up in a rural culture in the South, certain things were expected of women, and that included raising the children. But I think it's just as important for the father to give the baths, to hug, to change the diapers, to tell the stories.
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Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience.
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I am an example of a person who got zeroed into a philosophy early.
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There are places on a man's head that are as hard as a rock. Your head's actually stronger than your body. And you don't have too many instruments up there workin'.
