Larry Holmes Quotes

Muhammad could take a very good punch. He was slick, he could move, he could hit, make you miss, good hand speed and combinations and one of the greatest fighters of all time in my opinion.

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• The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Life
  • Art
  • True

• I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Community
  • Stop
  • Thought

• If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script... The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Reality
  • Advice
  • Young

• There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Feel
  • Moment
  • Reasons

• I feel like Nashville has watched me grow up in front of them, which is cool, but it kind of sucks at the same time because you get pigeonholed, like, 'Oh, she's the girl with the long hair that wears fairy dresses.' That was me at one point because I was new and I was young. But we all grow up.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Hair

• I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Think
  • Doing

• Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Life
  • World
  • May

• I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Career
  • Me
  • Acting

• A new era of responsibility is here.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Responsibility
  • New
  • Here

• Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make sure their screenplays make it into the right hands... or any hands, for that matter. The one thing that makes a coffee shop truly great, though, is charm.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • Great
  • Sad
  • Coffee

• Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-great-great grandmother who was a poor Irish-American woman in the 1880s in western Montana.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Great
  • Family
  • American

• I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Never
  • Boy
  • Old

• An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Home

• The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Remember
  • Nice
  • Journey

• One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.

  

  Taylor Mali
  • Work
  • Important
  • Teach

• If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. We've forgotten who we are.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • You
  • Forgotten
  • Frozen

• I do think that all of us think in poems.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Think
  • U.S.
  • Poems

• Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Men
  • Women
  • Stronger

• Apparently, I don't want to take myself too seriously.

  

  Creed Bratton

• The real reason for his attitude lay deeper. Essentially, Gloucester and the barons of his party were opposed to peace because they felt war to be their occupation. Behind them were the poorer knights and squires and archers of England, who, unconcerned with rights or wrongs, were 'inclined to war such as had been their livelihood.'

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Real
  • War
  • Peace

• I wouldn't call myself a recluse, but I am quiet and reserved.

  

  Barun Sobti

• Sometimes the hardest decision is to say no to something, and I think when you're less confident or when you're younger, you say yes to everything, and as you get older, you realise you don't need to.

  

  Joanna Coles
  • Decision

• When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Life
  • Live

• Muhammad could take a very good punch. He was slick, he could move, he could hit, make you miss, good hand speed and combinations and one of the greatest fighters of all time in my opinion.

  

  Larry Holmes
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