Muhammad Ali Quotes
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I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
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I am fortunate: my parents told me the world was my oyster, when they could have said I wouldn't make it for a lot of reasons - rural, girl, small African country. So, no regrets.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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It doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle.
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I'm a big believer in pushing things too far and forcing people to pull you back.
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You cannot imagine how great it is to step out on the stage with thousands of screaming fans loving you.
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'The Master' is a wonderful film, honestly, and the actors, Joaquin Phoenix and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, are incredible.
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It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals.
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My parents used to call me 'The Little Frog,' because whenever they asked how I knew something, I'd say 'read it,' which sounds a bit like a frog croak.
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I quit because I didn't feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.
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I was raised Jewish and fully embrace the core beliefs of Judaism - the ones that I identify as core beliefs, which are essentially freedom and justice. But the supernatural aspects of religion were never important to me.
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Whenever someone comes up to me saying, 'I saw you in 'Carlos' and then I saw the rest of your movies,' for me, it's an expression that we might be doing something well. So my life hasn't changed that much. I just try not to go to very crowded places if I'm not in the mood.
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I just do my job and go home. There's just one or two people I can say are friends that I can call.
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When my son was 8 months old, he had a febrile seizure. You know, if you're in the first year - my wife and I refer to it as the 'darkness.' You're just underwater.
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I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.
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It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.
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People who can actually challenge me and push me and almost push me to breaking point and extract a performance out of me, I really enjoy that.
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No matter what those sex-ed teachers say about how great condoms are, there's not a condom in the world to protect you from heartbreak.
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God has not called you to be anyone else’s imitation.
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I never push in front my muscles, only my religion, so I'm protected.
