Larry Holmes Quotes
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If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.
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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
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The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.
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Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
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It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
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You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.
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Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.
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Oh, did I tell you I have a cookbook? I have a cookbook deal.
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Once you have perfect virtual reality, what else are you supposed to perfect?
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I am the executive director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, which is the country's only national immigrant rights organization for black immigrants and African Americans. Being the daughter of Nigerian immigrants really drove me to do this type of work.
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Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
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My strength is in finding ways to make the government work for the people: finding waste, or money that is not being properly used... or finding opportunities that are out there and making them work for the community.
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Working with kids in Soweto in South Africa, it's rough out there. But the bottom line is you've got to go to know. In Cambodia, there are 10,000 landmines. Same in Afghanistan, same in Colombia. I'm totally addicted to traveling.
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My trouble is I talk first and think later.
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It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.
