Sonny Liston Quotes

Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining.

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• Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Up
  • Why
  • History

• Ben Roethlisberger is a proven winner in athletic competition. But the measure of a true leader is how they conduct themselves 24/7, not just during a winning touchdown drive or a goal-line stance. Leadership isn't something that gets switched off because the game clock expires.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • True
  • Game
  • Winning

• Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • World
  • Succeed
  • Youth

• The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Baseball

• Those who know me would tell you, 'Moily can't be cowed down.' I have plans to enhance domestic oil and gas production.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Know
  • Plans
  • Production

• I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Forget
  • Bosnia

• We're all idealistic when young.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Young
  • Idealistic

• I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Love
  • Fun
  • House

• Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • May
  • Democracy
  • Feet

• Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • May
  • Free

• It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.

  

  Ed Balls
  • People
  • Country
  • War

• However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Human
  • Rights
  • Human Rights

• The Foxy character and Inga Marchand are two different people. My fiance calls me Inga. No one around me calls me Foxy. I go to church every Sunday. I go to Bible study every Friday night. I'm saved.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • People
  • Different
  • Character

• I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Life
  • Important
  • My Life

• The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Important
  • First

• At the end of the day, tech workers are not robots: they feel, they think, they have values.

  

  Ed Lee
  • Day
  • End
  • Values

• Midori has been a steadfast supporter of the United Nations, as a Messenger of Peace and more recently by encouraging our efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Peace
  • Goals
  • Achieve

• There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Because
  • Female
  • Mozart

• Self-interest, to be sure, is one of the most important, but we have many other motives - honesty, self-respect, altruism, love, sympathy, faith, sense of duty, solidarity, loyalty, public-spiritedness, patriotism, and so on - that are sometimes even more important than self-seeking as the driver of our behaviors.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Important
  • Faith
  • Respect

• You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.

  

  Larry King
  • Why
  • Question
  • Questions

• I have a noble body. It adapts to all I ask of it.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Body
  • Ask
  • Noble

• I got so pissed I took a little poll to see if anyone was sick of gettin' taxed as much as I am. I called 100 people one night and here's the results: everyone I polled said, 'You dumb ass, it's three o'clock in the morning!' (p. 131).

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • People
  • Night
  • Morning

• Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.

  

  Minoru Yamasaki
  • Architecture
  • Japanese

• Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining.

  

  Sonny Liston
  • Questions
  • Dumb
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