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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People ask me what I'm writing. They think I'm Sandra Tsing Loh. Or they ask about stand-up. 'No, that's Margaret Cho.' I really think there is this kind of glomming, that they think we are somehow all the same person.
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People don't want to see the guy next door on the stage, they want to see a being from another planet. You want to see somebody you'd never meet in ordinary life.
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I'm not fighting just to fight. I'm fighting to be the world champ.
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In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
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Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.
