Larry Holmes Quotes
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The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.
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I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!
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'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book.
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Obama has been well-received on the world stage, but that doesn't help him operate domestically.
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I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.
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I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.
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My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
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The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
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People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.
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Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.
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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.
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If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.
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A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
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Put me in a costume, and I'm your man. I must have one of those faces which seems to suit period drama more than modern films and TV programmes. But I'm not complaining, I love going back in time. I feel quite lucky because nobody knows who I am. I can walk about and have ordinary conversations with people.
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My goal is I want to create the 20-20-20 club: 20 sacks, 20 tackles for loss, 20 batted balls.
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The dependencies of inner and outer Mongolia are the bulwarks of China. The desert of Gobi, stretching for ten thousand li, is a barrier set by Heaven to the Russians, and if they seek to invade our borders, they will find it everywhere along the Northern frontier difficult and troublesome.
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If I take enough pictures, I'm going to get a good one, and I know not to stop at a bad one.
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Kindness and patience were always called for.
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Eventually, I went to college to study psychology, but I was getting more and more TV roles, so I thought, 'You know? It's kind of like psychology, but a little more selfish.' I took a break from school, moved to L.A., and never went back.
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My fans know the name Larry Holmes and that he always gave it his all.
