Muhammad Ali Quotes
If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.
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I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.
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There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.
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I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
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As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.
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The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.
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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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I am reminded every day of my life, if not by events, then by my wife, that I am not a perfect man.
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I tend to eat what I want, which probably isn't good.
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I met one child there eleven years old, speaking three languages [in Guinea]. He could speak English, French and Malinke. Speaking my language actually better than I could. And this hypocrisy - they tell us here in America [ that black people can't be intelligent].
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If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war.
