Gerry Cooney Quotes
I am a fight fan. I think boxing had its problems and kind of fell away for a while, but it's coming back strong .
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I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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I think it's cool people love to hate me.
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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I can hang out with all my boyfriend's friends. I know how to roll with the guys.
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The real challenge that we face in our communications with others is to condition our hearts to have Christlike feelings for all of Heavenly Father's children. When we develop this concern for the condition of others, we then will communicate with them as the Savior would.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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If you say the word amnesty - the 'A-word,' so to speak - it's DOA. If there's even a hint of amnesty in my district, it's dead on arrival.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
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Though I technically come from a film family, my father had stopped making films even before my brother and I were born. So I did not really grow up in a filmi environment. And when I was growing up, becoming an actress was still quite a taboo. And you may not believe this, but even my father did not want me to join films.
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I started singing in pubs and clubs around Belfast when I was 10. My dad is a musician, and he took me 'round; I impersonated Tina Turner and Shirley Bassey, and the crowd couldn't believe what was coming out of this little girl.
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The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
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I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.
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I have to admit I can be pretty high strung and tightly wound.
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I am no prude, but when I watch comedy, I ask myself, 'Who wrote this? A teenage boy in the locker room?'
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There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.
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Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.
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Self-care is the number one solution to helping somebody else. If you are being good to yourself and your body and your psyche, that that serves other people better because you will grow strong enough to life someone else up.
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The greatest lesson I've learned is that you have to fight and continue to strive for greatness, as nothing great ever comes easily.
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'Elitist' doesn't need to mean wealthy and conservative; it can also mean specialised and rarefied, and that's no bad thing.
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I am a fight fan. I think boxing had its problems and kind of fell away for a while, but it's coming back strong .
