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 feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
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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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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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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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I love researching, I love interviewing.
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You must be independent and able to do for yourself. Then you do not have to marry a rich man; you can marry a poor one. And if it is wrong, you can go.
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If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
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Having an animal that you fix, knowing that you saved its life or you saved a pet - Like on a dog, these little kids will come, and their dog is just ready to die, and you do something, and they leave happy. The kids are happy, and the little puppy is licking your hand. Those are kind of neat feelings.
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I have to say I do read partly for escapism. Why can't I escape and learn something?
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My fans know the name Larry Holmes and that he always gave it his all.
