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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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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You see, I have many friends in the Hindi film industry.
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Nobody cares if you're black, white, straight, gay, Christian, Jewish, whatever it may be. When you step on that field, you're a member, in my case, the 49ers. That's your job, your occupation.
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The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.
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Whatever's merely willful, and not miraculous (be never it so skilful) must wither fail and cease - but better than to grow beauty knows no.
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To secure peace is to prepare for war.
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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
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It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.
