Muhammad Ali Quotes
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I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
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While many in the social enterprise space often qualify themselves as 'non-profit,' these organizations should instead treat themselves as 'for-purpose.' These organizations should focus on their mission to create social good, while still treating themselves with the same commitment to rigor and discipline as the best for-profits.
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I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
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Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
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I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come.
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I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.
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Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
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It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
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I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.
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I love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just seeing a few moves ahead - something else. My game started getting better. It's the patterns. The patterns are universal.
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I'm kind of an antsy person.
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I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.
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I am trying to do my own thing, but there will always be comparisons, even if I don't agree with them.
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Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.
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I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.
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So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.
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It depends on the book and what else is going on during my life, but it usually takes me about six months to write and revise the first draft.
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For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty.
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I was the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave.
