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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As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.
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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 lived in South Africa until I was 11 when we first immigrated. My mom had sent me back there when I was 14 for summer vacation. I wasn't doing very well in school, my grades were slipping. I called my mom one day and told her that I wasn't coming back. I ended up staying there until I was 17 before coming back to North America.
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It is with great pleasure that I see the political system of almost every power in Europe changing in our favor since the news of our late successes.
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It is so much easier for them to talk about what has been done to them—to tell a story of victimization and revenge—than to notice, feel, and put into words the reality of their internal experience.
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The system did not want me to make 'Go.' And I sort of stood up to the system and made the movie I wanted to make, and the fact that I did that and I'm proud of the movie means I'm really proud of myself when I look back on that.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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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.
