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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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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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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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.
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Of course the decision to commit British forces in Iraq was, for many MPs, a wrenching choice. However, our responsibility in the face of a growing ISIS threat is not to be paralysed by history, but to learn the correct lessons from it.
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I'm sure people will wonder if I could have hit all those home runs had I never taken steroids.
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I would hate to make music and people love me for something that isn't me.
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I also grew to love Nancy Reagan in a certain way. I learned more - certainly I learned more bad stuff that I had known about in greater detail, but I also got a lot of empathy.
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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.
