Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Quotes
No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.
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I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.
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Ever since I took to the streets when I was 17 to protest at great personal risk against the communist dictatorship, I have been a passionate democrat.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
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Most police officers are good cops and good people.
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I don't care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me.
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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
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Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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When I'm not touring, I hardly ever leave my house. Part of it is I get to do what I'm most passionate about, which is work on music and make new songs.
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I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.
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We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.
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Some people need sequins, others don't.
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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
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If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics
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Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
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The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it.
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I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.
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No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.
