Roberto Duran Quotes
Everybody says it: black, white; everybody calls me a legend. Italians, Jews. Everybody.
Quotes to Explore
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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I have a secret love of jazz.
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I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.
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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
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The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.
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I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
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I grew up pretty much with nothing.
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Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
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Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
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I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.
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As soon as you say that there is a community called, let's say, black Americans, you've immediately created a boundary line - who's in that group, who's outside that group.
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I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.
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I've read that the ancient Chinese art of feng shui can bring a sense of peace, well-being, and positive energy to a home - same as beer.
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Dartmoor proper consists of that upland region of granite, rising to nearly 2,000 feet above the sea, and actually shooting above that height at a few points, which is the nursery of many of the rivers of Devon.
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It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.
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I'm a big fan of Elvis, man. I got 'Heartbreak Hotel' tattooed on my chest.
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I think if I'd ever had any skeletons in the closet, they'd have been out a long time ago.
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Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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A human body is a conversation going on, both within the cells and between the cells, and they're telling each other to grow and to die; when you're sick, something's gone wrong with that conversation.
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I think it's just important to be able to keep things to myself and to have these moments that can't be - where I don't put them out and feel like they could be misunderstood, you know?
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There's stuff that everybody does that they don't know they do.
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Everybody says it: black, white; everybody calls me a legend. Italians, Jews. Everybody.
