Larry Holmes Quotes

All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps.

Larry Holmes

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• For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Long
  • Remember

• The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Play

• We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Responsibility
  • Need
  • Take

• Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Society
  • Faith
  • Desire

• It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Life
  • Great
  • Early

• I didn't mind staying home from school and medicating myself with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce. Being sick always gave me another chance to break an old-fashioned mercury thermometer, too.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Mind
  • School
  • Home

• Whatever my own practice may be, I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • May
  • Practice
  • Doubt

• I was supposed to be the antithesis of Frank.

  

  Douglas Wilson

• I think it's very important to support those who can't help themselves - children, animals - and especially to do so in your own neighborhood.

  

  Lori Foster
  • Important
  • Children
  • Help

• Meet them once and you're innocent; meet them twice and you're not. So if you see me having drinks again with Harvey Weinstein then, okay, you've got me.

  

  Matt Drudge
  • Innocent

• This is the fundamental problem with the ruling class in Washington, D.C. - the party bosses, the K Street crowd, the lobbyists who control all these politicians. They will do anything to maintain their power. They will do anything. They will say anything.

  

  Corey Lewandowski
  • Power
  • Control
  • Party

• The older I get, the less busy I like to be.

  

  Jeremy Irons

• We get caught up in all the stress - 'Got to do this, is this the right thing for me to do?' - but what about the thing you want to do? That's what'll keep you young. It's empowering, not becoming a prisoner of some other person's idea of what you should be.

  

  Matt Dillon
  • Up
  • Stress
  • Empowering

• I've always been drawn to strong women in every genre, people who push the boundaries because they're just epic.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • People
  • Women
  • Strong

• I am planning my one woman show. It will be a showcase of my life. It starts at the beginning and ends where I am today. It will have every single inch of my life - as much as you can get into an hour. I will be touring everywhere.

  

  Britt Ekland
  • Life
  • Today
  • Single

• Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film.

  

  Alex Cox
  • Happy

• What I would say to a person who is firm in their faith and wants to go into an acting career: It is such a difficult thing to do without compromising your beliefs.

  

  Angus T. Jones
  • Career
  • Faith

• My father was Mickey Katz, who worked with Spike Jones and then went on to improvise some successful Yiddish parodies, some of which I perform. My favorite was 'Geshray of the Vilde Kotchke,' his version of 'Cry of the Wild Goose.'

  

  Joel Grey
  • Father

• Just remember that you don't have to be what they want you to be.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Remember
  • Want

• From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too.

  

  Melissa George
  • Difficult
  • Creative
  • Dresses

• I had a couple albums out that sold well for who I was at the time and the type of music I played. People started recognizing my name and face and it helped sell bigger venues. I had a bigger spotlight and I had to live up to it but I thrived under that challenge. It expedited the creative process. If I was on stage in front of 300 people instead of 30, I had to work harder at my performances because I had a greater responsibility. It was very exciting, but creative too.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • People
  • Responsibility
  • Couple

• The problem was Mike Tyson always had trouble with bigger men. Even fighters like Bud Green, “Bonecrusher”, he had trouble with them whether he wanted to or not. He would have had great trouble with Lennox Lewis, particularly since he maximized his shortness by crouching, and he couldn't fight inside so the guy would pick him apart like Buster Douglas.

  

  Bert Sugar
  • Problem
  • Trouble
  • Fighters

• I would say that all successful people are fighters. They're passionate and determined. They see not only what they want out of life, but what they were built for, and fight for it.

  

  Haley Strode
  • People
  • Life
  • Fight

• All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Fighters
  • Promoters