Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Quotes
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All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.
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I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!
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I was on Kanye's Yeezus tour as a dancer, but really, I was a Vanessa Beecroft model. I was one of the three 'dancers' who couldn't dance and was more of an accessory than an individual. Vanessa was pretty involved. Her style is about a lot of standing. It's very simple but haunting.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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I would never want to be selected to a team just because I am going to set a record. It's critical to me to earn my way.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
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After running for a while, things really start to open up in your body. I felt like I'd tapped into parts of my body that I hadn't before. I let things in the universe flow through me that opened me up in a really cool way.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses.
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The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.
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I've had a contemptuous relationship with authority throughout my life. I found myself at odds with authority, and I'm disdainful of blind authority.
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In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.
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When I was around 9 years old, I was watching TV one day. I was looking at this commercial, with a kid in the bathtub playing with a rubber ducky or something, and I said, 'Where do those kids come from? How come they get to be on TV? I could do that stuff.'
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Old third basemen become first basemen, and old first basemen become designated hitters.
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There are things you do because they feel right and they make no sense and they make no money and it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other and to say it was good!
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I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.
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God only made one thing in this world that's perfect - and that's my boxing record.
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Boxing is what pays my bills.
