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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I'm used to pressure. When writing must get done, I work in bed, on a bus, a train.
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I'm from Cleveland, Ohio. I was the only black girl in my grade. And I was just, like, really dorky. Like, I wasn't cool.
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The way we see the world is not actually the world in itself. What we see is our idea of it. The truth is, we have no notion of what the world is other than through the veils of our perception.
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To me, if we're not failing a little bit, we're not trying hard enough. I think great cultures encourage risk and are tolerant of failure. If you don't do that, you're going to end up with a culture that is stagnant and not thinking about the next generation of products and experiences.
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'Vampire Academy' was a night shoot, so I got to know London in the darkness and had free time during the day. I saw a lot of theater while I was there.
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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.
