Muhammad Ali Quotes
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I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face.
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Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.
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America has always been a land of diversity, basically made up of immigrants, and that is something I want to see continued. It's something I'm proud of when people think of America.
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We are not America. We are Afghanistan.
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The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.
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But I had forgotten about the seven bowls of God's wrath stored in the minds of some of the unhappier prophets on the reactionary right,...
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I know that I've been guided by God. I am obedient.
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I hope I never have to pick between all these things I get to do.
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The humblest person in this world is the astrophysicist. Because we are face to face with our ignorance every single day.
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Getting plenty of sleep is always great. It really is. I have a girlfriend who's sending me a slant board.
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Class was always the domestic issue during the Vietnam War, not communism.
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Most of my friends are non-cyclists. They are interested and proud of my achievements, but, equally, if I stopped tomorrow, they wouldn't say much about it!
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Everybody knows when you've got a role in a Spike Lee movie, you're gonna blow up. But I happen to be the only person who's had the lead in the two Spike Lee movies nobody saw.
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We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to be permitted to exist.
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You know what they say - the sweetest word in the English language is revenge.
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I believe without a single shadow of a doubt that it is necessary for young people to learn to make choices. Learning to make right choices is the only way they will survive in an increasingly frightening world.
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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
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Be ever more obedient to God and He will save you.
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Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics.
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Even if you forget that's not the same as if it never happened. The slate is not entirely wiped clean; you can't reclaim the person you were beforehand; your state of innocence is not there to be retrieved.
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Especially at night she was afraid of waking up and finding him formless in the bed, transformed into excrescences that burst out because of too much fluid, the flesh melted and dripping, and with it everything around, the furniture, the entire apartment and she herself, his wife, broken, sucked into that stream polluted by living matter.
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Be obedient to your superior, and your inferior will obey you.
