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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She [Marilyn Monroe] wasn't the most incredibly beautiful. She's rather ordinary. Cute, but no Rita Hayworth. I think she was ready for the camera, and it was a real destiny for her.
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Sometimes you can incubate a character and that can take me a month just sitting on it imagining it, doing everything from sketching it to taking long walks, but sometimes you can see the character immediately. A lot of it is instinctive.
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Be obedient to your superior, and your inferior will obey you.
