Muhammad Ali Quotes
When a man says I cannot, he has made a suggestion to himself. He has weakened his power of accomplishing that which otherwise would have been accomplished.
Quotes to Explore
-
I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
-
In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
-
With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.
-
I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.
-
Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
-
My parents were reluctant to let me start auditioning until I was at least a little bit emotionally stable - I'm still working on that! And so I started when I was fifteen, and it was the best thing that could have happened to me in terms of being able to focus my crazy teenage energy into something good.
-
I don't know who Little Richard is.
-
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
-
But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
-
You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
-
I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
-
You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
-
She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
-
A Constitution should be short and obscure.
-
But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
-
I like to do my own make-up.
-
I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.
-
I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
-
To face death, that's nothing much. But to feel really stupid when you die, well, that would be insufferable.
-
I no longer wield the power of the office for the government of the church, but in the service of prayer I remain, so to speak, within St. Peter's bounds. St. Benedict, whose name I bear as pope, shall be a great example in this for me. He showed us the way to a life which, active or passive, belongs wholly to the work of God.
-
Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
-
My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.
-
I think working with the primal elements of fire and earth appealed greatly to my father because of the almost magical results.
-
When a man says I cannot, he has made a suggestion to himself. He has weakened his power of accomplishing that which otherwise would have been accomplished.
