Muhammad Ali Quotes
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented!
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of quiet. I just watch the politics and how everything unfolds.
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Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes.
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The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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We never wore burkas because Somalis had our own culture.
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The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.
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To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.
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It's funny, I used to say on 'That 70's Show', you could really put us in any decade, and it was about the people and the characters and that we cared about each other.
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Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
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Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
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I have had that same experience where there are several people who have come up in my life at the right time and have made critical contributions to how I see the world and how I see myself.
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I've used a stylist twice, and that was when I didn't have time to go shopping or pick up an outfit for a photo shoot. I think you should dress yourself, have fun with it - it's only clothes.
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I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.
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One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.
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Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.
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My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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If I'm in an uncomfortable situation, I think I can say something funny to defuse it. Sometimes you can't.
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It is not possible for me to bear alone such labours and the burden of such weighty cares as press on me from hour to hour, without one man at my side to help me. I have not a soul to aid me in all my anxieties and toils.
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There was one reviewer from the 'New York Times,' I forget his name, who said I was 'death warmed over.' I wrote him back that I knew more about death than he did. The 'Times' fired him, put him in the cooking department!
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Hittin' hard don't mean nothing if you don't find nothin' to hit.
