Muhammad Ali Quotes
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!
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It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.
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I don't miss being on the road right now because the thing is, I was on the road for eight years, so I love pizza, but pizza every day for eight years is a different thing.
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I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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My family is the most important thing to me because they're always there for me when times are down.
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Knots Landing is the best thing that ever happened to me.
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Stand-up, I find it really difficult. It's not really my thing.
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The great thing about Cairo is the vast majority of women wear some kind of head scarf, but they are also very fashion-conscious. They love bright colors.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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I haven't quite got the hang of this retirement thing.
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The only thing I change mainly is my sneakers. I love sneakers. But everything's sort of black or jeans. Jeans, always.
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Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise.
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To get to play someone who was in some capacity the King of Harlem, that meant something to me. Deep within my bones. I was inspired by the energy that I knew to be a real thing.
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Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
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Romance is very particular to each individual and a very personalised thing.
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The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.
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Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.
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Keyboardists whose chief asset is mere technique . . . more often than not astound us with their prowess without ever touching our sensibilities. They overwhelm our hearing without satisfying it and stun the mind without moving it.
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I'm the fastest thing on two feet.
