Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Quotes
When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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Personally, becoming a mother has been such a rewarding and wonderful experience. However, at times it has also been a huge challenge. Even for me who has support at home that most mothers do not.
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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she's fearless and she's ahead of the game. She's ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.
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I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks.
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My mom was always very, very careful with my mind: what I saw and didn't see.
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If I saw 'Virgin Suicides' or 'Eternal Sunshine,' I'm so proud to be in those movies. They are such great movies. I felt so free on those sets.
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There's this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above that box. I could have done a bunch of movies where I stayed as the Axel Foley or Reggie Hammond persona. But I didn't want to be doing the same thing all the time. Every now and then, you crash and burn, but that's part of it.
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When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.
