Roberto Duran Quotes

I want to thank America. You opened your heart so I could enter. Thank you everybody who lives in the United States, who saw me grow into becoming a world champion.

Roberto Duran

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• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
  • Business
  • America

• If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Power
  • Miracle

• I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Heart
  • Done
  • Broken

• YouTube has become more mature, both as a platform and as a community. So much content has been added in almost every conceivable category that there are no more free passes on just getting there first. I think there are greater expectations for audience participation, the kind of participation that makes a real impact in a show's community.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Real
  • Free
  • Community

• I like shopping at retail places like JC Penney or Macy's, and maybe buying a top or a shirt, and then buying a skirt from Rue 21 or Forever 21 because they have the maxi skirts, which I appreciate so much, and then topping it off with something that I buy from a Somali shop.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Forever
  • Appreciate
  • Shopping

• The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Community
  • Paris
  • Immigrants

• A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Time
  • Man
  • Old

• À l'heure, si sombre encore, de la civilisation où nous sommes, le misérable s'appelle L'HOMME; il agonise sous tous les climats, et il gémit dans toutes les langues.

  

  Victor Hugo

• But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Words

• I remember wanting to do something about that enormous-faced wristwatch she was wearing - perhaps suggest that she try wearing it around her waist.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • She
  • Remember

• Here in the hospital, I say,that is not my body, not my body.I am not here for the doctorsto read like a recipe.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Body
  • Hospital
  • Recipe

• Books are wonderful. They are like people, except they mind less when you put them down and wander off to eat something.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • People
  • Mind

• Of course we had our arguments; we had everything, but at the end of the day, that was still my mother, my confidante - my everything.

  

  Bobbi Kristina Brown
  • Mother

• When Al Gore picked Joe Lieberman, it was a clear declaration of independence from President Clinton; no Democrat had been more critical of Clinton's misconduct.

  

  Jeff Greenfield

• I have no regrets because I did everything by the book.

  

  Alexis Arguello
  • Book

• I hope no one will think of... sending me to Pearl Harbor.

  

  Charles A. Lockwood
  • Hope

• I'm fed up with democracy. In a democracy, people vote for the mayors. I wanted to build a city where I will choose the citizens.

  

  Emir Kusturica
  • People
  • Up
  • City

• Switching to the outfield was the best break I ever got.

  

  Al Kaline

• Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • God
  • Family
  • Thank God

• All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks. Some don't use electricity. In American culture, we obsess about celebrities. We create them, build myths around them, and then hunt them and destroy them. I don't know where its taking us or what it means but I know we do it.

  

  Casey Affleck
  • Different
  • Culture
  • Mean

• I love driving fast. I grew up in Germany; we have the Autobahn here, where we can drive without a speed limit. And throughout my 20s, I always had fast cars, and I always went to the maximum. Like, my average cruising speed was 250 km/hr.

  

  Kim Dotcom
  • Up
  • Driving

• I want to thank America. You opened your heart so I could enter. Thank you everybody who lives in the United States, who saw me grow into becoming a world champion.

  

  Roberto Duran
  • Heart
  • Becoming
  • Everybody