George Foreman Quotes
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don't go bungee jumping; I won't jump from the third floor without a safety net. I don't do such things. That's not my personality type.
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I don't like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.
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American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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I remember the day Dr. King died. I wasn't angry at the beginning. It was like something very personal in my life had been touched and finished.
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The success of all of our kids is paramount. ... We can't just lock up everyone. The stakes are high.
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Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.
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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.
