Muhammad Ali Quotes
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend it.
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I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.
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I happen to be quite fond of staying out late and sleeping the day away.
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We are well aware of the task ahead of us in what will be a very difficult match but which we all dream of playing.
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But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture.
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One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.
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Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.
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I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.
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I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.
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It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was to play the solos. But he took great pride in his technique as a rhythm guitarist.
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Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.
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I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'
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Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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The Indian youth needs to be empowered, and it can be done through good education and vocational training.
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'Blue Plate Special' is the autobiography of my first half-century of life, with food as the subject.
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I think they have not learned over the years that the more you talk, the more I will want to beat you.
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Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus' psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state.
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The movie says, You can lose your job and your way and still rescue yourself. 'Larry Crowne' creates a self-excavated utopia, and I love that idea, that message.
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When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult.
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I'm trained as a teacher; that's the only thing I've got a certificate for.
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With George Clooney, the distinctive quality is a unique kind of American phoniness - charming because it's aware of itself as phony. It's as old as old Huck Finn, but, in our age, it has migrated from the fringes to the center.
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That all you got, George?
