Sugar Ray Leonard (Ray Charles Leonard) Quotes
I've always believed that you can be whatever you want to be if you are willing to sacrifice and dedicate yourself.
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There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
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If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.
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I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.
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I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.
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As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
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Drama starts where logic ends.
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I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.
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My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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The only two characters I can play convincingly are myself and a dumber and sweeter version of myself.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.
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I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.
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I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
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Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.
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Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
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To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.
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Most actors will tell you that it takes a while to figure out what you want to be because we just want to do everything we see on TV and don't know that 'actor' is a job yet.
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Music is a personal preference. Everyone's free to connect and like whatever they want.
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.
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I've always believed that you can be whatever you want to be if you are willing to sacrifice and dedicate yourself.
