Muhammad Ali Quotes
When you saw me in the boxing ring fighting, it wasn't just so I could beat my opponent. My fighting had a purpose. I had to be successful in order to get people to listen to the things I had to say.
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The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world.
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.
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Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
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Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.
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I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.
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I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
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There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified.
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Never worry about bad press: All that matters is if they spell your name right.
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I had some experience writing collaboratively when I wrote for the theatre.
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Nights and days came and passed and summer and winter and the sun and the wind and the rain. and it was good to be a little island a part of the world and a world of its own all surrounded by the bright blue sea.
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The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.
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America used to have a strong 'moral safety net' for its people. Today that net is badly frayed, not only because families are disintegrating but also because the church doesn't play the same role that it once did in many Americans' lives.
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Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do.
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When you saw me in the boxing ring fighting, it wasn't just so I could beat my opponent. My fighting had a purpose. I had to be successful in order to get people to listen to the things I had to say.
