Roberto Duran Quotes
Everybody says it: black, white; everybody calls me a legend. Italians, Jews. Everybody.

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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 also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it.
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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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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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Ten doors are opened if one door be shut: the finger is the interpreter of the dumb man's tongue.
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At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one of you starts with the desire to get as much as possible. No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. In this unsatisfied quest the attitude of mind, the desire, the thirst-a thirst that from the soul must arise!-the fervent longing, are the be-all and the end-all.
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What better way to honor to such agents of chaos as Keith Partridge and Charles Manson?
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I'm black and white, so either, sometimes, you're not considered by the breakdown of the script: you're not 'black enough' for this role. Or you're not 'white enough' for this role. Or, like, looking up to people, who do I identify with? And not seeing Barbies that maybe look like me.
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Everybody says it: black, white; everybody calls me a legend. Italians, Jews. Everybody.