Muhammad Ali Quotes
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
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A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.
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The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.
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Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.
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...why is an artist an artist? Artists simply do feel and see things in a different way to other people. In a way it's a blessing, but it can also be a terrible curse. There's a great deal of satisfaction to be earned from it but often it's also a terrible burden.
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It's possible for the heavyweight champion of the world to be with one woman.
