Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Quotes

Conor McGregor is a tough competitor. He proved throughout the years in the UFC that he can fight standing up.

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• I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Up
  • City
  • Fashion

• I don't get star-struck at all.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Star
  • Get

• I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Dream
  • Myself
  • Best

• Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Reality
  • Way
  • Appearance

• I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Nothing
  • Without
  • My Own

• From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
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  • Important

• I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Music
  • God
  • Trying

• When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Together
  • Think
  • I Think

• There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

  

  E. B. White
  • Always
  • Complicated
  • Limit

• Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.

  

  Gary Burton
  • People
  • Time
  • Listening

• I always thought I should be treated like a star.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
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  • Star
  • Thought

• The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Food
  • Water
  • Cooking

• It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
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• I like to make my name of songs strange.

  

  Flula Borg
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• Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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  • Woman

• Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.

  

  Dana Perino
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• Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.

  Garry Kasparov
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  • Power

• The Czech Republic is a dynamic United Nations Member State, active on the Human Rights Council, contributing to the peaceful settlement of disputes, and helping other countries to achieve a democratic transition.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
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  • Peaceful

• We are in a bit of a policy box and it's going to require us being willing to give up one of the two, which is it's okay to take on more deficits but lets put in some massive spending. Alternatively to say, 'we're going to go through structural unemployment for a while because we want to address deficits.'

  

  Indra Nooyi
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• They are slaves who fear to speakFor the fallen and the weak;They are slaves who will not chooseHatred, scoffing, and abuse,Rather than in silence shrinkFrom the truth they needs must think;They are slaves who dare not beIn the right with two or three.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Truth
  • Fear
  • Silence

• To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

  

  Franz Grillparzer
  • Criticism

• I know my body's limits. I've never enjoyed Spin classes, where they're like, 'Push it further!' I'm like, 'No. If I pull something, I can't work tomorrow.' That's why I gave up Bikram yoga.

  

  Cobie Smulders
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• I grew up in the north of England - 200 miles north of London, in a relatively unsophisticated place. And I craved magazines as a way of finding out about the future, about the life that I wanted.

  

  Joanna Coles
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  • Future

• Conor McGregor is a tough competitor. He proved throughout the years in the UFC that he can fight standing up.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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