Georges Carpentier Quotes

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

Georges Carpentier

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• Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.

  

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• The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

  

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• In Washington, I am a leader on the issues that matter to my community, and I think that's what my constituents want, and also I think that's what voters want. Someone who understands them, who wants to represent them, and who works tirelessly every day on behalf of their interests and their values.

  

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• My childhood was appalling.

  

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• The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.

  

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• I believe in a strong national defense. But it's my belief that neither Iraq nor Afghanistan poses a threat to national security, and we shouldn't be involved in either area.

  

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• It is said that Obama speaks 'professorially,' a fact that understates the quickness and agility of his mind.

  

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• I said that if I were an industrialist or entrepreneur, I would invest in agriculture-based enterprises, for there is so much that can be done in manufacturing, in food preservation.

  

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• The best way to use these lists to replace anger with love in real life is to nurture each other by doing for your partner what your partner normally does for you.

  

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• We have to get very militant with some of these employers to say there's no shortcuts, our people have a right to a fair day's wage for a fair day's pay, and we've got to get that done. And that's going to happen.

  

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• And I certainly like being on a plane, next to a stranger, having conversations that you'd never otherwise have. You're unplugged, your phone doesn't work, you're not online.

  

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• Young boys must be taught to play football without leading with or lowering their heads. Young players must be drilled over and over and over with Heads Up Football skills until that skill set becomes muscle memory and second nature.

  

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• If Mom is healthy, then her child is more likely to thrive, more likely to have a better quality of life and, ultimately, better able to provide for his or herself.

  

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• I believe that our office has clearly been the leader in building coalitions, in getting other universities across the contrary to interact more effectively with the government and particularly the Congress.

  

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• I could be pretty volatile, especially when I didn't feel understood, which was 99 percent of the time. I do think that, as a young person, I suffered over that. But as I look back, it doesn't even feel like part of me - except when I act and need those emotions. Then I can dredge it up.

  

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• I never heard about tefillin. I was unfamiliar with the deep history and ritual of being an Orthodox Jew. Before you get out of bed, you say a prayer, and then you get out of bed, say another one.

  

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• I have a Bolex, Aaton, Arriflex, Eyemo, Filmo, Mitchell, Photosonic, Beaulieu, Keystone - just about every movie camera you can think of.

  

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• I knew a girl so ugly, I took her to the top of the Empire State building and planes started to attack her.

  

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• I don't know why I get cast in a lot of period pieces. Stephen Fry told me that I had a face for period, that I look like someone from 1920.

  

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• It won't be too long that you'll be celebrating and you'll have confetti coming down on their heads and the city will just be going crazy.

  

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• Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

  

  Georges Carpentier
  • Boxing
  • Half
  • Attack