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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Everybody in the South loves the one closeted homosexual who's married. It's just too funny to not have in a movie about the South. It's an epidemic. You gotta represent!
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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
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It is unimaginable that anyone, right or left, can aspire to be president without having thought about this. Every candidate has the stage; the Republicans have used it to fuss unproductively over the Common Core. The Democrats have all but refused to speak.
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I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.
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How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?
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It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.
