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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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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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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I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.
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I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.
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Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.
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I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event can have long-reaching consequences and a life over the course of years.
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But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.
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I think love is often a bit selfish, even before we had consumerism. That's not new. A consumer society gives you the illusion of having massive amounts of choice and saddles you with the freedom of being able to dabble in that choice. And at the same time, you are left with the tyranny of self-doubt and uncertainty about whether you made the right choice.
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You know, we have our differences, everybody does, honest, real differences, but I do believe strongly that we as neighbors are drawn together far more than we're driven apart.
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My fans know the name Larry Holmes and that he always gave it his all.
