Chris Algieri (Christopher Mark Algieri) Quotes

We need to get more people watching boxing. I love this sport and anything we can do to help it is great.

Chris Algieri

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• I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Life
  • Great
  • My Life

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Doing
  • Looking
  • Roots

• Anyone driving through London after the school term ends will notice immediately how much easier it is to get around. The school run contributes massively to congestion.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • School
  • Driving
  • London

• I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • School
  • Age
  • Working

• If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.

  

  Rachel True
  • You
  • Enough
  • Where

• My life is studded with a series of coincidences.

  

  Manju Warrier
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Series

• I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Friend
  • Singing
  • Red

• Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Silly
  • Most
  • Absurd

• There is nothing settled about a poet's identity. The becoming doesn't stop because the being has been achieved. They proceed together, attached in ways that are hard to be exact about.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Together
  • Stop
  • Identity

• The Palestinian Authority has become the biggest terror body in the world.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • World
  • Body
  • Authority

• It is important that we women use our position as a platform to influence for good.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Good
  • Important
  • Women

• Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • Struggle
  • Happiness

• Pour tromper un rival l'artifice est permis; on peut tout employer contres ses ennemis.

  

  Cardinal Richelieu

• Knowing there is a capable back-up willing to give it a try always makes you feel better.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Up

• When I went to my local grammar school, Lurgan College, girls were not encouraged to study science. My parents hit the roof and, along with other parents, demanded a curriculum change.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • School
  • Parents
  • Science

• I like being in kids' movies, and I like being in family movies.

  

  Bill Nighy
  • Family
  • Kids

• To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.

  

  Bernard Iddings Bell
  • Joy
  • Voice
  • Love Is

• Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • Remember
  • Parents
  • Wonder

• People talk about me, and that's good, but a lot of it has been down to how my team-mates have supported me.

  

  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
  • People
  • Good
  • Team

• By coincidence, this particular tiny show on earth that consists entirely of me talking about sports on NPR is also folding its tent flaps this May of 2017. Yes, this is my swansong, my farewell, my last hurrah. Adieu, adios, arrivederci, auf wiedersehen.

  

  Frank Deford
  • May
  • Earth
  • Sports

• I'm not bleaching my skin, and if I was bleaching my skin and I felt like saying so, I would, but for the record, I am not.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Skin
  • Bleaching

• We need to get more people watching boxing. I love this sport and anything we can do to help it is great.

  

  Chris Algieri
  • People
  • Sports
  • Needs