Thomas Hearns (Motor City Cobra) Quotes

Some people are going to be happy with my decision, some people aren't... But I must live my life.

Thomas Hearns

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• It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Music
  • Success
  • Pride

• There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.

  

  Magnus Magnusson
  • Better
  • Walks
  • Exercises

• My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Money
  • Lost
  • City

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Business
  • American
  • Help

• If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • God
  • True
  • Me

• I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Important
  • Beautiful
  • Confidence

• If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Job
  • Doing
  • Desk

• I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we're starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I'm confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Stop
  • Start
  • Week

• Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.

  

  Vash Young
  • People
  • Life
  • American

• I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Writing
  • Sacrifice
  • Point

• I'm not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I'm doing. So if I'm playing basketball, if I'm taking the SATs, like, there's a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it's the same thing.

  

  J. Cole
  • Bad
  • Best
  • Same

• I try to steer away from doing something that's just commercial instead of sticking to a good script.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Good
  • Doing
  • Try

• When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• For good or bad, there is a certain level of generalisation when it comes to my work. I want to break that perception. My decision to direct 'Bombay Talkies' or to present 'The Lunchbox' is an attempt to do that. These are the films that gel well with my sensibility, and it's unfortunate, it's not the perception out there.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Good
  • Work
  • Bad

• I do endless chopping and preparing things. I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Thinking
  • Cooking
  • Relaxing

• If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Formula
  • Torn
  • Hiroshima

• I think that I have very few personal gifts to bring to real politics.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Real

• The ordinary surroundings of life which are esteemed by men (as their actions testify) to be the highest good, may be classed under the three heads - Riches, Fame, and the Pleasures of Sense: with these three the mind is so absorbed that it has little power to reflect on any different good.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Life
  • Good
  • Men

• Alzheimer's is a horrible thing. Some people are naive about it. They think, 'Oh it's just your memory,' but my mother was in terrible pain. Your body closes down. She didn't know if she'd eaten or if she wanted to eat. She couldn't remember how to walk. Towards the end, she didn't know us. It came gradually, then it got worse.

  

  Bonnie Tyler
  • People
  • She
  • Remember

• Yesterday, here in Philadelphia, at the Liberty Bell, I met a lot of Americans who do have the will. From arch-religious conservatives to young secular radicals, I just felt an incredible overpowering sense that this was possible. We're calling it the ONE campaign, to put an end to AIDS and extreme poverty in Africa. They believe we can do it, so do I.

  

  Bono U2
  • Believe
  • Religious
  • Poverty

• Some people are going to be happy with my decision, some people aren't... But I must live my life.

  

  Thomas Hearns
  • Life
  • Live
  • Decision