Muhammad Ali Quotes
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If you try to create something that everybody can relate to, you're gonna make something that nobody can relate to.
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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.
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I believe in miracles. At the age of 13, I was on holiday in Moscow with my mother. It was the only trip I took in my whole childhood. We stepped off a metro train and were approached by a talent scout who told me that she wanted to sign me to her modeling agency.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.
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Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.
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Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
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Kevin Costner told me that 'True' was his and his wife's song. I'm not sure if that's a good thing because they split up soon after.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.
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An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
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Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.
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I will admit to hoarding beauty products. I'm a beauty lady.
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
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For everything I wished were different about the old man, I found comfort in just as many things that never changed.
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Make peace with the knowledge that you can't have everything you want. Why? Because it's more important for us to get everything we need.
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The whole tax code should be looked at, all the way from farm subsidies to carried interest to - to corporate loopholes, because we really need to raise more revenue.
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I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.
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Superman don't need no seat belt.
