Joe Frazier Quotes
I know my destiny. I was born into animosity, bigotry and hatred. We had water for white folks, and water for coloured folks. White lines, black lines. I came from Beaufort in South Carolina, and it was tougher than Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success.
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In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
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Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
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I can not stay at the place when a stranger starts talking to me. I will try to cut the speech as quick as possible and move away. I had to break this inhibition before becoming an actor.
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For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.
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I did not get Botox because you wouldn't see any expression in my face. Hopefully it has paid off.
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I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.
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The undue influence of money on our politics is like a cancer underlying other cancers, the issue underlying all other issues.
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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
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Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.
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I know my destiny. I was born into animosity, bigotry and hatred. We had water for white folks, and water for coloured folks. White lines, black lines. I came from Beaufort in South Carolina, and it was tougher than Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.
