Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Quotes

I think I already proved that I wasn't just fighting for the money, because I fought as an amateur. I fought 90 fights for free.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

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• No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.

  

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• I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.

  

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• I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.

  

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• Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

  

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• Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.

  

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• I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I'm very greedy, and I really enjoy it!

  

  Tanith Lee
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• I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment, and how easy it is to fix some of those things.

  

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  • People
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• The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.

  

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  • Beginning
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• When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.

  

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  • Way
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• All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.

  

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• If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • You
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• There is no evidence to show that prohibition has ever had its intended impact. Of course, just as banning beef has reduced beef consumption, banning alcohol will lead to reduced alcohol consumption. But, there appears to be little or no correlation between, say, domestic violence or household impoverishment and prohibition.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Violence
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• It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Possible
  • Prefer
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• I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.

  

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• All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.

  

  Randi Weingarten
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• Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

  

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• As a kid, I collected 'Vogue' every month for three years.

  

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• I was raised doing martial arts.

  

  Victor Webster
  • Doing
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• These days, many people are unwilling to see their dog as an animal. Let's face it: they are cute, but they will bite. Not only do I look at dogs as animals, I look at myself as an animal, which explains why, since I got my permit, I drive with my head out the window.

  

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• There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so.

  

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• Coming down under a parachute is quite different as well. You hit the ground pretty hard, but all the systems work very well to keep it from hurting, so it doesn't even hurt when you hit. It was a great experience to be able to do both.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Work
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• Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.

  

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  • Children
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• I think I already proved that I wasn't just fighting for the money, because I fought as an amateur. I fought 90 fights for free.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Money
  • Think
  • Free