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.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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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.
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I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.
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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.
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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.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.
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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.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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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.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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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.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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I've been identified with James Bond or Thomas Crown for so long; suave, elegant, sophisticated men in suits. it's like you've been giving the same performance for 20 years.
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… less real than such threats as a man with a gun, a woman with a knife, or a U.S. Senator with an idea.
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Years ago, I thought old age would be dreadful, because I should not be able to do things I would want to do. Now I find there is nothing I want to do after all
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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I think it's better if you rely on the fact you belong together, instead of having to reinvent your togetherness every day. People who say right off the bat that they don't want to take risks because their relationship is going to dissolve anyway - well, you might just as well split up right away. Why wait?
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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.
