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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Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
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I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.
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When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.
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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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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.
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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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I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.
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I remember when both Gnarls Barkley and Justin [Timberlake] lost for Album of the Year [at the Grammys], and I looked at Justin, and I was like: 'Do you want me to go onstage for you? You know, do you want me to fight?
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I felt like the only way to effectively run for office is if you had access to a lot of wealth, high social influence, a lot of dynastic power, and I knew that I didn't have any of those things.
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He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.
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I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
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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.
