Jack Dempsey Quotes
You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.
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I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.
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I'm a lot more introspective than one would believe.
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Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.
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Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.
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A spiritual partnership is between people who promise themselves to use all of their experiences to grow spiritually. They use their emotions to show them how to create constructive and healthy and joyful consequences instead of destructive and unhealthy and painful consequences.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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A great painting is a great painting.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them.
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I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.
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When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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The effect of sanctions on the Russian economy are clear to everybody, first to the Russians and to the Russian leadership, and the surroundings of the Russian leadership, the circle that is close to the Russian political leadership.
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Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.
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I don't think I have the assets to play the more traditional Bond Girl.
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Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to.
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I do have a regular childhood.
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There is a feeling within our system that defence equipment can't be made here and should be imported. I wanted to break this myth, so we spent our money and made a product to prove we have capability in this country, so don't just brush us aside.
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You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.
