Muhammad Ali Quotes
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We were descended from royalty.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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If people knew how KFC treats its chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick.
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My mom often tells me to get married, but she gets it now that I don't want to. Like any other mom, she is worried, but she also understands the demands of my profession. I am blessed to have a family like this.
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Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.
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Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
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I call it the 'House of Reprehensibles.' We don't have any real political resistance to this growth of the domestic state across the board. So I'm much more focused on that than on the Patriot Act, which is a real effort, however inept, to deal with a real problem.
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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.
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Tweeting has taught me the discipline to say more with fewer words.
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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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Plan ahead! Prepare dishes ahead of time if you can. Keep it simple. Most importantly, have fun and enjoy your guests.
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I love thrift shopping. You can get ten things because everything costs, like, three dollars.
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Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
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I wasn't looking out, I was looking in. I knew something was in me, I just wasn't sure how valuable it was.
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Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.
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If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
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My mother used to make the most amazing yogurt.
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I tried to be as thorough as I can, but there is a responsibility that we all have, especially with something like AA which is dependant on anonymity. Once you start banging on about it the whole time, you are potentially damaging the whole concept of it.
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No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.
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The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago.
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It isn't the mountains that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
