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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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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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment.
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I'm lucky in that I can't see myself doing an office job every day. I'm lucky that I can play my sport and go around the world without too much to worry about outside that. I think it's good to be happy with what you're doing.
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I pretend that I was never in the movies. The only job I had before was selling prawns door to door. That's what I tell myself. My kids have never seen my films. I'm too embarrassed to show them.
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I had a job to do in the ring, and the businessmen around me had a job to do outside the ring, I did my job by beating up most of the guys they put in front of me and staying in shape, but the people I trusted didn’t do their jobs.
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I hope that all of us in both parties who have said that we have to stay in Iraq and finish the job in pursuit of our own values and of our own security will pull together and make it happen and not be part of a chorus of doubters that will undermine the support of the American people more.
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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.'
