Sugar Ray Robinson Quotes
You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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The money factor had been kind of my excuse as to why I hadn't put out any music. So I just found the cheapest way to make music and get it to people, and that was via the Internet.
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Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.
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I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting. The more different they are, the bigger the challenge.
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In addition to being the most beautiful score I have ever sung, 'Piazza' gave me the opportunity to honor the matriarchs of my Southern family.
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This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.
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I have no technical training and am completely uneducated in music.
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You don't want to look back and have any regrets because things are too hard.
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The moment we realize that the only things we can intelligibly value are actual and potential changes in the experience of conscious beings, we can think about a landscape of such changes - where the peaks correspond to the greatest possible well-being and the valleys correspond to the lowest depths of suffering.
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I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar, were retarded by the indulgence of teachers who were proud of my drawing faculties, and passed over my neglect of uncongenial subjects.
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I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.
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Once I know people know who I am, it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I wouldn't normally.
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I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books.
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Gli ambasciadori sono l'occhio e l'orecchio degli stati.
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Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there’s a reason it gets beaten down. Usually, we don’t like it very much.
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To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
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By the time of the '90s boom, CEOs had become superheroes, accorded celebrity treatment and followed with a kind of slavish scrutiny that Alfred P. Sloan could never have imagined.
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Well, my friends, the time has comeTo raise the roof and have some fun.Throw away the work to be done.Let the music play on.
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Because I work with so many people on the east coast, I get some work done before I get the kids up.
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When I'm DJing for two hours, I might play two or three Smiths songs.
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You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid.
