Chuck Wepner Quotes
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It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
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I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before and I'm physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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I thought, 'My God, I'm gonna make $15,000 a week for 13 weeks.' What would I do with that kind of money? You know, I had never seen anything like that before in my life.
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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.
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When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that makes you want to improve yourself.
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It is very important that people start back to work, especially those in public service.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.
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Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.
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The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
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We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
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Be kind. Every person you meet is fighting a difficult battle.
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I'm not fighting just to fight. I'm fighting to be the world champ.
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Never leave the site of a goal without first taking some form of positive action towards its attainment. Right now, take a moment to define the first steps you must take to achieve some goal. What can you do today to move forward?
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There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet playing. Another one is the starting what was first called jazz rock in 1967 when I started my first band, later became jazz fusion by the 1970s.
