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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Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
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Di qua, di là, di giù, di sù li mena.
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While everyone usually turns up late at Bollywood parties, I always reach these places on time and end up making a fool of myself.
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It's funny - when I first started as an actor, obviously there were long periods of being idle and all you want to do is work. So if I ever get the compulsion to feel like I should complain or feel like I want to take a break, I just remember how I was before and be very grateful for it.
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Don't give in to hate - it puts you off balance
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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.
