Muhammad Ali Quotes
Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.
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There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn't know how many people would respect it.
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I do a lot of inspirational talks for kids, to motivate them to change their lives and give them hope.
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I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.
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I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.
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Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.
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I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.
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What sets 'Some Nights' apart from anything we've ever done is the hip-hop influence. Not so much the actual sound of hip-hop, but more the vibrato and the artistry that comes with it. Right now, the artists that seem to be pushing to be the greatest artists and are trying to change the world are hip-hop artists.
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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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At 14, I'd have given my left arm to be a boy: I thought I was horrible and that no-one would ever find me attractive.
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I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.
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Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy - entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate.
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You put high heels on and you change.
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Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun of being different characters is adapting different nuances and different parts of the character, but never jeopardize your moral compass or anything like that to have a role.
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I'm very honest in my music and I'm often asked to explain the lyrics; as an introvert, I find that quite hard. And I always wear high heels on stage, which can be painful.
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I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line.
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People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.
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Those who talk don't know what is going on and those who know what is going on won't talk.
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Nobody wins the Open. It wins you.
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If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.
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Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.
