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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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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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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Knowing there is a capable back-up willing to give it a try always makes you feel better.
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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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I often shoot with scissors in my eyes.
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I feel responsible; I feel I've got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they can live healthy, safe, productive, creative and prosperous lives.
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I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.
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I believe that reading widely is the best preparation for writing.
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In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.
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When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, 'Instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.'
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I do expose my body, but only because I think people should have something nice to look at.
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True believers aren’t real receptive to the idea that what they’re telling you is just mythology.
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I just feel so fortunate and so blessed to have been able to entertain people in the theatres and on record, it's just an amazing life that I've experienced.
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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.
