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.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Home
  • Enough
  • Lucky

• When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • People
  • Good
  • Like

• Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • History
  • Mistake
  • United

• Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Time
  • Forget
  • Leaders

• I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • College
  • Years
  • Gone

• 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.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• 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.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Great
  • Love
  • Today

• 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.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• 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.

  

  Victoria Clark
  • Family
  • Beautiful
  • Opportunity

• 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.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Live
  • Business

• I have no technical training and am completely uneducated in music.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Music
  • Training
  • Uneducated

• You don't want to look back and have any regrets because things are too hard.

  

  Gabriel E. Gomez
  • Want
  • Look
  • Regrets

• 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.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Experience
  • Value
  • Suffering

• 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.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • School
  • Proud
  • Period

• I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Money

• 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.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Life
  • Time
  • Reading

• Gli ambasciadori sono l'occhio e l'orecchio degli stati.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini

• Sometimes, I have themes that interest me or that touch on larger issues but, really, I'm just trying to figure out the plot, or how the characters work. I'm trying to make the best story I possibly can.

  

  Brian Selznick
  • Work
  • Trying

• I didn't even want to start acting when I started. At least, I never thought about it.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Want
  • Thought
  • Start

• I think we have to face right in the center of the hurricane, if you will, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s foibles and faults. I think that we do no good to ourselves and do no honor to him by pretending that he did not fail, that he did not wrestle greatly and, at times, surrender to his own sins and his own faults and failures.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Honor
  • Faces
  • Failing

• I'm an amateur.

  

  Francisco "Chico" Buarque de Hollanda

• You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid.

  

  Sugar Ray Robinson
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