Muhammad Ali Quotes
At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.
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In Iran I think nobody loses their job because of making a statement that reflects their opinion. From this point of view, conditions in Iran are far better than in many other places in the world.
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Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.
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I've been in more laps than a napkin.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.
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I really think that it's disgusting that Paris is the only place where it is illegal for paps to follow you around. It actually took someone losing their life - Diana, an inspirational woman - and then it changed, but they still won't change it in London! It's horrible!
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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I take my work seriously.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.
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There is an enduring feeling that women can write domestic dramas but don't have the muscularity or the vision to write state-of-the-nation narratives.
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I worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week for years. Being a comic book artist is like sentencing yourself to life imprisonment at hard labor in solitary confinement. I don't think I'd do it again.
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When I first met my wife, I really just settled down quite a bit and I started living a much cleaner lifestyle. I was able to concentrate on things that I neglected in the past a little more and I was spending a lot more time at home than I normally would.
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I have found in black metal the lyrics are profoundly beautiful... a pathos and mythos at the same time.
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On Friday, June 12, 1992, 110 heads of state gathered at Riocentro. They were indistinguishable in dress and deportment. Where was biodiversity when we needed it?
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At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.
