Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Quotes
Boxing's in my genes. I come from a fighting background. My dad and both my uncles were good boxers. I'm blessed with the art of war.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.
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Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe.
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Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
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Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.
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I guess Species was a movie made for me and hence I bagged the role. In fact even when acting, I never thought the outcome would be so good which I think it was! The entire role was a challenge. I was to be this strange yet sexy thing which was challenging!
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I just don't watch a lot of TV.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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I'm a dork!
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S.
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I think personality correction is necessary for successful men, like prime ministers, businessmen, politicians... it's essential that one should keep an eye on one's own personality. You must have seen people in politics who become chief ministers and then pass into oblivion - how egotistical they became and how pathetic they look.
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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When I look back at my career and my life and how much I have learnt, I feel blessed with what I have. I have stopped fighting with myself.
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Boxing's in my genes. I come from a fighting background. My dad and both my uncles were good boxers. I'm blessed with the art of war.
