Joe Frazier Quotes
I went to see President Nixon at the White House. It wasn't difficult to get a meeting because I was heavyweight champion of the world. So I came to Washington and walked around the garden with Nixon, his wife and daughter. I said: I want you to give Ali his licence back. I want to beat him up for you.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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From my own internal fanboy perspective, there's nothing that I hate more than seeing a three minute trailer for a movie where I feel like it's shown me the entire movie.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.
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I'm not spending every second thinking about the World Cup, but it's always in my mind when I make choices and decisions.
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I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.
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The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
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We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning our educational systems.
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To all companies large and small, I would say this: the British economy is fundamentally strong; we are highly competitive, and we are open for business.
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I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.
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I can't believe I'm actually saying this, but there is a difference between the John Cena character you see on television and me as a human being.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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I've always earned my own money and enjoy being independent. It's how I was brought up.
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I went to see President Nixon at the White House. It wasn't difficult to get a meeting because I was heavyweight champion of the world. So I came to Washington and walked around the garden with Nixon, his wife and daughter. I said: I want you to give Ali his licence back. I want to beat him up for you.
