Georges Laraque Quotes
My first fight in Hamilton was against Rocky Thompson. Everybody was saying, 'Be careful, he can punch with both hands.' I'm saying, 'Look how skinny he is.' I was cocky. But he beat me. After that fight I said to myself, man, this is going to be a tough job.
Quotes to Explore
-
Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
-
We're just going to be ourselves, and we're just going to cross our fingers and hope that people like it. Because that's all you can do.
-
Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.
-
I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
-
Everything I do now is a first.
-
The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.
-
I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
-
I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.
-
The story and the characters of 'Girl Online' are mine.
-
Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.
-
I remember my first actor that I really, really fell in love with was Tom Hanks. I suppose when I was growing up and getting more serious about acting, at that point, he was the biggest actor in the world.
-
All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
-
Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.
-
Matt Braunger really makes me laugh; I like that guy a lot.
-
I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions.
-
Charlie Rangel was writing laws on our taxes as chair of the Ways and Means Committee while somehow neglecting to pay his own.
-
I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, 'Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.'
-
One of the choicest occupations here is ripping reputations into pieces.
-
I hope to grow another head and two more hands, like an Indian goddess.
-
Somalia is very dangerous, and no one knows that better than I.
-
A lot of the time, excess on a film set is just damaging.
-
Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.
-
Busted is not the ideal band I'd like to be in by any stretch of the imagination.
-
My first fight in Hamilton was against Rocky Thompson. Everybody was saying, 'Be careful, he can punch with both hands.' I'm saying, 'Look how skinny he is.' I was cocky. But he beat me. After that fight I said to myself, man, this is going to be a tough job.
