Sugar Ray Leonard (Ray Charles Leonard) Quotes
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book.
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To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.
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As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.
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I used to dream of some kind of way that you could carry a phone with you - but I never thought I would see it in my lifetime. It doesn't matter nowadays if you are caught in traffic or got lost on the way somewhere. You can just send a text and the recipient will know that you haven't fallen under a bus.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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I have about 4 million Lego bricks. And then a few million in storage in case something comes up. I still pay for them. I buy my bricks just like everyone else. It's by far my biggest capital expense.
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Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.
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And let us be frank, the security threats that emanate from our ports come from foreign cargo.
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I'm not in the business of changing policies. I hope to inform, not form, decisions.
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After I started being able to grow a beard, I was obviously done at Disney - until I'm old enough to be a parent or an annoying older brother.
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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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My goal is to send a message to Muslim women and young women everywhere that it's okay to break stereotypes and be yourself.
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As you set off into the world, don't be afraid to question your leaders. But don't ask too many questions at one time or that are too hard because your leaders get tired and/or cranky.
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All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.
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I pretty much will do anything for a laugh.
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So, The Color Purple changed my life. It changed everything about my life because, in that moment of praying and letting go, I really understood the principle of surrender. The principle of surrender is that, after you have done all that you can do, and you've done your best and given it your all, you then have to release it to whatever you call God, or don't call God.
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Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.
