Muhammad Ali Quotes
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But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.
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The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.
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The only duty an artist has is in the quality of the art. There is no moral obligation to denounce. An artist confronted with a tremendous injustice sometimes feels inclined to say something. Denouncing the situation is the artist's choice.
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I live in rural New Hampshire, and we are, frankly, short on people who are black, gay, Jewish, and Hispanic. In fact, we're short on people. My town has a population of 301.
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One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever.
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If we know human anatomy and we are reasonably intelligent, he assumes that we can figure out how to do almost anything.
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When you're going off to Iraq, your horizons become more short term.
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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
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I operate off of fear almost exclusively.
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All in all this is a difficult political struggle which will go on for years, in which our people won't die anymore; I'm not sure how much we will be able to win, but I'm certain that we won't loose anything that we have now.
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I'm always amused when people point out that Benjamin's naivety about the publishing process is just so unbelievable in Starborn #1 since, of course, no aspiring writer in reality could ever be so naive.
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It's much more powerful and compelling to create a positive vision than it is to tear somebody down.
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The UFC has been nothing but great to me. I can't complain; they give me what I want.
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Teachers didn't like me very much. They thought I was just this punk kid and they always wanted to kick me out.
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It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots.
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America's disabled veterans answered our country's call, and when their time in uniform is done, our country must stand with them.
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'Hotel For Dogs' was fun for my family, but it was kind of hard to get in the audition room for 'Jennifer's Body' after that, you know? But I think the roles find me, in a way.
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When you begin moving toward excellence, you will find very little competition. You're competing with only 20% of the population.
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I was trying to be so perfect and so cookie-cutter because everyone's like, 'Aim for that Disney audience! Be perfect! Don't say anything wrong!' And it's just working out better for me just being me.
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Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.
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Sweethearts of Rodeo Drive' is inspired by the fact that a lot of people are being killed on both sides in Iraq and the average person in the States that I run into is a lot more concerned with how big their TV is. That's pretty weird. I look at my granddad's meticulously clipped headlines from World War II almost daily and I see that every action in that war was a two-inch bold print headline even if it wasn't one of the biggest battles. It was all major news. The scale of this war is a lot smaller, but someone being killed or a group of people being killed might be Page 3 or Page 12 news in the U.S.
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Definition: Alpinism is the art of going through the mountains confronting the greatest dangers with the biggest of cares. What we call art here, is the application of a knowledge to an action.
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Brooding over blunders is the biggest blunder.
