Muhammad Ali Quotes
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Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
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Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.
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There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
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I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at the same time, I don't consider women to be any less than men. In fact, I feel we are far more intelligent than them.
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
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Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.
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I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that.
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I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
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Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
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Dontel Benjamin on 'Eastbound' is a loud-mouth, braggadocios, crazy man, while Roy on 'Rake' is a very deliberate, thoughtful man, and he doesn't scream a lot.
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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My heart reaches out to those whose loved ones were lost on MH17.
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
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100% of Net-a-porter customers have a man in their lives in some capacity, and 59% are married or living with a partner.
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I'm a religious man. I pray for Milky Way.
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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
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The Internet is so big that no one can control anything, really.
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Legitimate institutions historically have been defenseless in the face of outright fraud.
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If I go into a restaurant there's a very good chance that I'm going to spend my time being the mayor. If I want to have a good time, I'm happier having dinner here.
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A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.
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I'm the most recognised and loved man that ever lived.
