Muhammad Ali Quotes
I think I could beat Joe Frazier singing. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.
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I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.
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Making music is fantastic.
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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
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And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip.
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I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'
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In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
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Television really has been my vehicle. I don't get played on the radio much, so I've relied on TV a lot.
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When I was 5 years old, I was coming up the stairs, and I saw my mom standing there, singing 'A Quiet Thing' a cappella, and it was such a differentiating moment for me. I realized that we are separate from each other - she has dreams and goals.
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I watch a TV show called 'Shark Tank.' It's one of my favorite TV shows. It's basically self-made millionaires who have either come up with their own business or clothing... I came up with the idea of designing clothes.
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I grew up thinking that singing was my security.
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I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.
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People can be slave-ships in shoes.
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My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.
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If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
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It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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I think 'Lovin' Feelin' was probably one of the most - probably in '64 and '65, one of the more dramatic love songs for these kids to grab hold of. I mean, they had been listening to, you know, kind of cute songs, and 'Lovin' Feelin' was just a strong, powerful song.
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You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.
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What do I think of myself? I know my worth. I know my value. I know I have to lead by example. I can't just be all over the place. I put the energy out that I want given back to me. And again, I'm true to me.
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I think I could beat Joe Frazier singing. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.
