Larry Holmes Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.
-
Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
-
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.
-
When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
-
If you're famous, you're not free.
-
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
-
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.
-
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.
-
You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
-
Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.
-
Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
-
It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
-
You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.
-
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
-
As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.
-
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.
-
Oh, did I tell you I have a cookbook? I have a cookbook deal.
-
Once you have perfect virtual reality, what else are you supposed to perfect?
-
If you know how to make software, then you can create big things.
-
You see, I have many friends in the Hindi film industry.
-
There is not much good spending twelve hours a day in a black hole in the ground all your life long if there’s nothing there, no secret, no treasure, nothing hidden.
-
Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.
-
The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band.
-
It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.
