Muhammad Ali Quotes
I have the world heavyweight title not because it was 'given' to me, not because of my race or religion, but because I won it in the ring through my own boxing ability.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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People have often asked me, do I want to be the next Oprah - there is no such thing. Oprah is Oprah, and she's still being Oprah if anybody hasn't noticed... what I bring to TV is myself... I really think there's space in daytime TV for a whole bunch of fun, some amazing music, and some heart.
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Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.
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Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
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When I was getting ready to put out my first album, the record company told me my name, James Oppenheim, wasn’t very marketable, and they’d heard of my nickname. It still took me a good two weeks to decide to use it. And all my writing credits on my albums are still my legal name.
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I hear them playing Elvis, they on they way to Graceland. But they don't scare me, I'm in the trunk.
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Don't mess with the dead, boy, they have eerie powers.
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I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.
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I look for absurdly simple plots so that I can simply focus on the characters. Having an understanding of what dialogue's easy to say and hard to say - I think that that's helpful, too.
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I have the world heavyweight title not because it was 'given' to me, not because of my race or religion, but because I won it in the ring through my own boxing ability.
