Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Quotes
I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.'
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
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I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
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If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
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You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.
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Creativity has no boundaries.
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I lived on nothing for years - squatted where I lived and where I worked, stole electricity, made things from stuff I found in skips, used paper that had been discarded - you do everything you can do to keep going and not have to get a job.
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I did a really good job of sticking to the tennis court.
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I want to continue modeling and do the best that I can with that.
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I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.'
