Nigel Benn Quotes
I was always fighting from a young age… I wouldn’t back down, I knew Andy wouldn’t have backed down.
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My mother, R. Rajalakshmi, taught at Annamalai University in Chidambaram, and during the day, I was well cared for by aunts and grandparents in the usual way of an extended Indian family.
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To deal with what you have to deal with as mayor or president, there has to be an overriding psychological or professional or emotional gratification that would let you go through all the angst.
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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.
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I was in 30-plus clubs when I was 14 years old.
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My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
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There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive.
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Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
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People don't stop eating, and they don't stop drinking coffee.
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A commodity producer should be comfortable being exposed to prices.
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Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
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Have I ever made a mistake? I am sure. Do I think I can stand on my record? I do.
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It's strange to recall that America animated none of my youthful daydreams. I did not see a Hollywood film until my late teens.
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What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns.
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If you step out and do what you feel is right... and you're not attacking a person, and you're attacking a process, and you're attacking the status quo... and if somebody wants to hold a grudge against me, that's on them. It's not on me, and I'm going to do what I think is right.
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Pity him who lives at homeHappy with his life,Without a dream, a flexing of wings,To make him relinquishEven the warmest ember of his hearth!Pity him who is happy!He lives because life lasts.Nothing within him whispersMore than the primeval law:That life leads to the grave.
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Malaysia-Singapore bilateral relations can blossom beautifully if cultivated and nurtured like an orchid plant.
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I hate working out. Because I work out for films now solely I come to associate it with work.
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What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time.
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Honestly...how did I do as a big sister?
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Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.
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Age and gender, nationality and religion, what language you use - all of that isn’t important to me.
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I was always fighting from a young age… I wouldn’t back down, I knew Andy wouldn’t have backed down.
