Muhammad Ali Quotes
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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At the end, it's your movie and your performance that stands out. So if I am a good actor, and if am being part of good entertaining engaging films, audiences will like me.
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
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Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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As you grow older, your music begins to mature and grow older along with you.
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I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled.
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For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
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I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.
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If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.
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Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.
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God makes everything in perfect time, and he doesn't give you anything you can't handle.
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Leo Hurwicz is the father of mechanism design theory and has inspired much of my work, and Roger Myerson is an old friend and collaborator and a tremendous economist.
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I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.
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Sometimes you get yourselves in situations where you don't realize people are actually testing you. People are actually provoking you.
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I got IRS records to finance what I wanted to do.
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My experience is that if you're fighting for something you believe in-even if it means alienating some people along the way-things usually work out for the best in the end.
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There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
