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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Acting? No, it is not for me. I would be terrible.
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The subconscious mind has no sense of humor and people often joke themselves into unhappy experiences.
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I can't protect myself when I'm not facing the play.
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Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy.
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Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall.
