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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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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It's interesting to try to imagine how early humans discovered what was edible and what wasn't. Who figured out that when you cooked stinging nettles, the sting would go away completely? How many people had to die before the relative toxicity of wild mushrooms became widely known?
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Even when I had no money, I spent everything I had on clothes.
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Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.
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My mother is happy with whatever I choose to do in life as long as I'm happy, healthy, and safe.
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I like meeting directors. It can be helpful because sometimes when you meet filmmakers you find out if you like them and if they like you, and that is important in terms of considering a role. Choosing a role is all about whether I relate to the role and the story really. That's the criteria.
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I felt red, white and blue all over.
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Everybody says it: black, white; everybody calls me a legend. Italians, Jews. Everybody.
