Chuck Wepner Quotes
I was the only guy to knock him down when he was champion of the world, Sonny Liston was the biggest puncher I ever fought, but all around, the most skilled fighter, it was Muhammad Ali by far. It was an honor to fight the guy, and to this day I'm very proud of myself for what I accomplished in that fight.
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I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.
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Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
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We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
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Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.
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I pack on mass quickly when I lift.
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I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.
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Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.
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By 1988, I was living in New York myself.
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I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.
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Angela Merkel puts Germany first.
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It's often out of my own insecurity. If I'm picky, it's for that reason. I want to be able to bring my best to the table. So if I'm not connecting to something, then I'm not gonna hold up my end of the bargain, and that's really embarrassing.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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'Born this Way' is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.
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We're an American company; we're proud of being an American company.
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On the mission I brought a flag from China, I brought the stone sculpture from Hong Kong, and I brought a scroll from Taiwan. And what I wanted to do is, because as I was going up and I am this Chinese-American, I wanted to represent Chinese people from the major population centers around the world where there are a lot of Chinese people. And so, I wanted to bring something from each of those places and so it really wasn't a political thing and I hope people saw it that way. I was born here, I was raised in the U.S., and I'm an American first, but also very proud of my heritage.
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If California is any indicator, I'm proud that the public here saw right through it and registered in record numbers and voted in record numbers.
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Food Stamps helped keep me from going hungry, and Pell grants helped me go to college.
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I was the only guy to knock him down when he was champion of the world, Sonny Liston was the biggest puncher I ever fought, but all around, the most skilled fighter, it was Muhammad Ali by far. It was an honor to fight the guy, and to this day I'm very proud of myself for what I accomplished in that fight.
