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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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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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 it's going to go my way, it's going to go my way. I have to keep working hard.
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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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The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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We are fighting to impose a higher social justice. The others are fighting to maintain the privileges of caste and class. We are proletarian nations that rise up against the plutocrats.
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I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born in New York during the golden age of television, and you grew up on Broadway, that marks you.
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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.
