George Elliott Clarke Quotes

Boxing remains an important living metaphor of the struggle for equality.

George Elliott Clarke

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• There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Money
  • Win
  • Choose

• I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Want

• I don't really know if I'm writing the kind of roles that Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore would play. Jessica Lange on 'American Horror Story' is a little bit more my cup of tea.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Writing
  • American
  • Tea

• Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Work
  • Important
  • Family

• I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse.'

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Life
  • Good
  • Love

• Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Done
  • History
  • Sun

• Not a lot of people get a second chance. And I think for a while there, my name kind of got in my way a bit, based on all of the television I was fortunate enough to do. But after a while, you sort of wear out your welcome in that genre, in that medium.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • People

• We have to promote a movie. It's just extraordinary that everybody I'm talkin' to loves this movie.

  

  Joe Pantoliano
  • Movie

• We're the biggest food and agriculture company in the world.

  

  Dwayne Andreas
  • World
  • Food

• For me, rehearsal is very important, and I spend a lot of time doing it. Also, I work with my acting teacher for hours and hours before walking onto any set.

  

  Krysten Ritter
  • Time
  • Work
  • Important

• We all know that there are different scripted programs out there, and we're all facing the same challenges in terms of ratings and everything else, but I think that there is a lot of opportunity to be had as well, and what I'm excited to do is to get to explore that.

  

  Channing Dungey
  • Different
  • Opportunity
  • Explore

• If you can, you must.

  

  Bikram Choudhury

• People assume that because I'm a girl and my blog is hot pink that my readership is 90% women, but it's not. It's probably only about 65%. When I do tours, it's pretty much the same thing: it's about one-third guys.

  

  Jenny Lawson
  • People
  • Women
  • Pretty

• I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.

  

  Martha Plimpton
  • Character
  • Dark

• Americans never quit.

  

  Douglas MacArthur

• I think you always have regrets.

  

  Clint Walker

• I will be honest and say that I've never seen a schedule I like.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Schedule

• A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Business
  • Guy
  • Mentor

• Today, men and women in uniform ... work so hard on our behalf to protect our freedom (and) our liberty. As they give their best for us, we want to be there for them, ... The good news for returning veterans is that the demand for skilled talent is very strong.

  

  Elaine Chao
  • Good
  • Work
  • Men

• James Franco is a Method actor. I respect Method actors, but he never snapped out of character. Whenever we'd have to get in the ring for boxing scenes, and even during practice, the dude was full-on hitting me.

  

  Tyrese Gibson
  • Character
  • Respect
  • Practice

• The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Emotions
  • Elimination
  • Castration

• The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Life
  • Work
  • Women

• I am a positive person. I am not cynical. If you are born in this world, no matter who you are, negative things will happen. If you aren't positive as a person, you'll be very unhappy. It's extremely important to be positive, to laugh, to be happy, to accept life as it comes.

  

  Bipasha Basu
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• Boxing remains an important living metaphor of the struggle for equality.

  

  George Elliott Clarke
  • Boxing
  • Remains
  • Metaphor