Gene Tunney Quotes
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After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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Things are looking up, and hopefully, I will be doing good roles in both Hollywood and Bollywood.
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The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.
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I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.
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I think that a really good agent should be able to get the right publisher, which the agent has already figured out, get as much money as she can from that publisher, and make a deal, rather than have the amount of money determine the sale. That's what the best agents do.
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I think that the future of currency is digital, and Bitcoin has a good shot at being the currency of the future.
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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I deal with haters on a daily basis.
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I am an actor who turned hero at age 32, after many years of struggle. I wanted to break the stereotype that only good-looking men with a good complexion, height and physique can be heroes, which I have managed to do.
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To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.
