F.X. Toole Quotes
Boxing is the magic of men in combat, the magic of will, and skill, and pain, and the risking of everything so you can respect yourself for the rest of your life.
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
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My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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But I think we need the international market.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.
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My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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I go to the gym in the morning to warm up, and then I go to the mountain and train. Then I come home and go to the gym again to recover. But on travel days, you get pretty much no physical exertion.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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I'm kind of like a bit of everything wrapped into one.
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A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.
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I can't get no respect.
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If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.
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I got you right, I changed your life.
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Boxing is the magic of men in combat, the magic of will, and skill, and pain, and the risking of everything so you can respect yourself for the rest of your life.
