Muhammad Ali Quotes

Whether it's boxing, basketball, or badminton, one must be ready to succeed before entering the arena...long before the lights come up.

Muhammad Ali

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• The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what kind of personality he has. So that's where the physicality comes in. And flying through the air is just something you have to do if they ask you.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Up
  • Character
  • High

• There is sometimes a tendency to assume that everyone in this great country has adequate housing. But when you go to certain places, certain neighborhoods, both urban and rural, you find out that's not the case, and I think we have to do much more.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Great
  • Country
  • Think

• I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Beautiful
  • Clothes
  • Shock

• You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Decisions

• It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • President
  • Laws
  • Principle

• I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • You
  • Said
  • Stock

• I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Soul
  • Food
  • Enjoy

• I remember being described often as 'the horrifically ugly Jack McCall,' and I kept thinking it took me about 10 seconds to get like that.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Ugly

• In Washington, I am a leader on the issues that matter to my community, and I think that's what my constituents want, and also I think that's what voters want. Someone who understands them, who wants to represent them, and who works tirelessly every day on behalf of their interests and their values.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Community
  • Day
  • Leader

• There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Fun
  • Religious
  • Movies

• The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.

  

  Fisher Ames
  • Believe
  • Democracy
  • Liberty

• Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the black community. But it's not the only voice.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Black
  • Community
  • Voice

• Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Age
  • Death
  • Free

• Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Important
  • Power
  • Never

• I believe in a strong national defense. But it's my belief that neither Iraq nor Afghanistan poses a threat to national security, and we shouldn't be involved in either area.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Believe
  • Strong
  • Security

• If I examine the circumstances which inspired me to write – and this is not mere self-indulgence, but a desire for accuracy – I see clearly that the starting point of it all for me was war.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • War
  • Desire
  • Circumstances

• I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Writing
  • Doing
  • Same

• I do pop, so pop is very broad. It could be anything from the Weeknd to Taylor Swift to Beyonce to whatever is on the radio, basically.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Very
  • Radio
  • Whatever

• Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it.

  

  Euripides
  • Desire
  • Results
  • Efforts

• Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes.

  

  Warsan Shire
  • Peace
  • Mistake
  • Making

• I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Theater
  • Arena
  • Park

• From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the society. But no such films have been made about Afghanistan, so you really can't know much about it.

  

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf
  • Film
  • Knows
  • Afghanistan

• Whether it's boxing, basketball, or badminton, one must be ready to succeed before entering the arena...long before the lights come up.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Succeed
  • Boxing
  • Arena