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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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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Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
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When I watch kids play basketball, they don't know how to think the game. They know what it should look like, but they don't know why.
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It is a relatively small number of people who want to impose their will by the use of terror on the rest of civilization, who have got a program. It's not blind violence. It's with a purpose. They want to destroy the state of Israel. They want every westerner out of the Arab countries, Middle East and elsewhere.
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Debt is not caused by spending, it is caused by buying things that you don't pay for. Or, it's caused by cutting revenues that you don't offset ... by cuts in spending.
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If you find a solution with the Cube, it doesn't mean you find everything. It's only a starting point. You can work on and find something else: you can improve your solution, you can make it shorter, you can go deeper and deeper and collect knowledge and many other things.
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What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.
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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.
