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.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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My life is studded with a series of coincidences.
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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.
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Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
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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.
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The Palestinian Authority has become the biggest terror body in the world.
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It is important that we women use our position as a platform to influence for good.
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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.
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Pour tromper un rival l'artifice est permis; on peut tout employer contres ses ennemis.
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Knowing there is a capable back-up willing to give it a try always makes you feel better.
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I like being in kids' movies, and I like being in family movies.
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I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.
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I think, as a kid, whenever you say you want to be an actor, you get discouraged, so perhaps if I had have listened to those people telling me that, I might have gone down the route of a teacher. But I was never really going to do that.
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The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.
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I like English spirit.
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The key to transforming mental models is to interrupt the automatic responses that are driven by the old model and respond differently based on the new model. Each time you are able to do this, you are actually loosening the old circuit and creating new neural connections in your brain, often referred to as self-directed neuroplasticity.
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I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it.
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We need to get more people watching boxing. I love this sport and anything we can do to help it is great.
