Sonny Liston Quotes
I never had a dime to my name before I became a fighter. I never had friends before, or respect. Now when people see me on the street, they turn around and say, "Ain't that Sonny Liston, the fighter?
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I've done quite a few things based on real events or real people, and I think that's always really interesting that you can read about them or, if you're lucky, you can meet them.
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I can be more cold than people would like me to be.
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The line between anime and regular animation is very difficult to cross, even for people who have been doing anime successfully for years.
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I love it when people travel to see one of my works, and I always make time to meet and talk with them.
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People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
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I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn't get paid for it, I wouldn't act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You're a very small cog in a big machine.
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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I was a dramatic kid. I was always like, 'Watch me put on my play, Mom and Dad! You have to watch me put on all these outfits and do this play!' But my family is very academic and straightforward and normal Midwestern people, so the idea that I could act as an actual job wasn't really there.
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Fifty-nine cents. For years, I wore a button - '59 cents.' Many of my colleagues wore it also. The purpose was so that people would come up and ask, 'What does '59 cents' mean?' One could then launch into a discussion about how women working full time in the U.S. earn 59 cents for every dollar earned by men.
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When people are putting pressure on me I just completely ignore it.
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I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.
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Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
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You need to understand that a skilled professional songwriter can accelerate your success as an already talented musician. These people are writing every single day, so their craft is really sharp, and it's the best songwriters who consistently get on the radio.
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As people, right now, we're so over-stimulated in this world that I don't know what I'd do in Wyoming. I really don't know what I'd do. I would probably have a heart attack because I'd be so lonely, and I'd actually have to listen to myself think. That's a terrifying prospect for myself, and I'm sure many other people as well.
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I'm committed to the people of Gujarat. I will devote each and every moment to serve my people of Gujarat.
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I like people who are still actively creating in their life, who aren't set, I don't feel like I'm set. And I don't have any baggage, for better or worse. I don't have any plants or pets or kids. I can lock the door and go. I need to be with somebody for whom that's okay.
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People misinterpret what I say all the time: They think I'm being offensive, when really, I'm only being opinionated.
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If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed.
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The leaders of ISIS are canny strategists with a solid understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the West.
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He had forgotten that the most elemental instinct in human nature is not hate but love, the former inextricably linked to the latter.
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People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves.
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I started dancing when I was three, Scottish dancing.
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But I wondered, how would I feel about killing someone? Now I know. It’s no big deal.
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I never had a dime to my name before I became a fighter. I never had friends before, or respect. Now when people see me on the street, they turn around and say, "Ain't that Sonny Liston, the fighter?
