Muhammad Ali Quotes
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
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All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
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I am unboreable in the great outdoors.
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I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine.
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History is obviously dependent on the evidence, and it's always amazing to me how much evidence there is.
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I create with my heart, so life and work inevitably intersect all too often.
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Being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It's two steps removed from the Inquisition.
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The thing that was most interesting to me was getting my first prints back from the printer and realizing photography doesn't end with the click of a button, it starts there. Printing is so exciting.
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But I know too that if we ever make a world without shadow, if the chemists and scientists and psychologists succeed in abolishing fear, pain, loneliness, death, some of us will find life so intolerable we will probably blow out our brains out of sheer boredom.
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Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light. What else did Malebranche mean when he spoke of "seeing all things in God"? Existence is a mystery because the light of it is inexhaustible.
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If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.
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I have no interest in being famous. I'd love to vanish from the public eye as soon as I can.
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I went through about seven years of trying. And through artificial insemination. And through medication. And all of which was unsuccessful.
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I love and always have loved policy issues and trying to have an impact on the issues that are out there. I cherish my years in government. I have loved my participation at CNN, at Current; writing; teaching. Where I will go next, I will have to sort out.
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What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited from his father, but from a driving need for love, which no obstacle in this world or the next would ever break.
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There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG.
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Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water.
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When you get divorced, all the truths that come out, you sit there and go, 'What the f**k was I doing? What was I doing believing that this person was invested in this way?' Which is a fantastically strong humiliation in the best sense. It can make somebody very bitter and very hard and closed off, but I find it does the opposite to me.
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Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
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Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.
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Putting affects the nerves more than anything. I would actually get nauseated over three-footers.
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Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
