Muhammad Ali Quotes
Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall.
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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Of course, we all watch James Bond with envy - knowing the U.S. government would never pay for the lifestyle he enjoys.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?
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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
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I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.
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You never want to sound bitter about critics, because they're entitled to do their job, too, but I place much more trust in a person who I can look in the eye and someone who I know I share some kind of taste with - so my friends, for instance. For me, a critic is unknown and therefore irrelevant.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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Call me crazy - I love elk meat!
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The eyes of the world are fixed on the U.S. to see if we have the political courage and moral sense to solve our debt crisis.
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I've had to work by myself at combines before and forced myself to work out alone all the way back to high school. You have to be self-motivated.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
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What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.
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The only certainty we have is that those who are certain of a way to arrive at worldly salvation, are committed enough to organize around this, and seek power to enforce it, will invariably descend into a bloody totalitarian fascism.
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I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to help us out from the sidelines.
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What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in the daytime, and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with the sky for a background, enough to enable him to adore God in his most beautiful as well as in his most sublime works? Indeed, is not that all, and what more can be desired? A little garden to walk, and immensity to reflect upon. At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate upon: a few flowers on the earth, and all the stars in the sky.
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There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.
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That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization.
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I can't protect myself when I'm not facing the play.
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My music is like my freedom space.
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Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall.
