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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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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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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My mother was a stout woman with a man's name - Billie. She was plain-faced with honest eyes - no black grease by the lash line, no blue powder on the lids, eyebrows not plucked up high and thin.
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Red Interactive, the digital advertising agency, is a real, systemic kind of business, as opposed to a one-off thing. We can help advertisers frustrated by old media find clients they can work with.
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Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.
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Every book that is banned is a badge of honor.
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Anytime you hear different things - whether it's trade rumors or people saying you're not living up to your complete potential - you're obviously going to get ticked off about that.
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It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.
