Muhammad Ali Quotes

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

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• To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• I love Star City - it is my home.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Love
  • Home
  • City

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

  

  Garet Garrett
  • President
  • Laws
  • Principle

• My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Best
  • Marriage
  • Brother

• I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Father
  • Ear
  • Hank

• Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Hero
  • Loved
  • Him

• When it comes to working out, I really don't like the gym. I go because I have to, but I'm usually not happy about it. I do what my trainer and coaches tell me to do, but I'm always anxious to get outside.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Happy
  • Always
  • Working

• 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

• It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy.' And I was like, 'No! No!' But I was able to get my foot in the door through comedy. I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to do it.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Opportunity
  • Funny
  • College

• 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 may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Star
  • Audience
  • Director

• The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Always
  • Will
  • Act

• 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

• If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Game
  • Change
  • Revolution

• Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Work
  • You
  • Copy

• My childhood was appalling.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Childhood
  • Appalling

• Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Become
  • Poison

• I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I've come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It's the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.

  

  Gustave Gilbert
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Nature

• I just want to make sure that I'm taking roles that are positive, real, honest reflections of African-Americans because I do think the media can put African-American women in the background. Then, unfortunately, what happens is, subconsciously, our culture begins to assess that as reality.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Women
  • Real
  • American

• Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding.

  

  Peter Brook
  • Understanding
  • Drama
  • Theatre

• I've honestly always been an overly analytical, highly observant person. I was playing music but thinking about it at same time, which was sort of exhausting. Aside from the pain of writing - you're not really in a gang like you are in band, it's a little bit lonelier - I think it was always something that I'd wanted to do. So the transition wasn't abrupt or painful.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Writing
  • Pain

• Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Boxing
  • Watching
  • Beat