Gerry Cooney Quotes
The bad press came because they thought I should fight more. I couldn't get the fights because if I would sign to fight one of King's guys I would be signed to him. I chose not to do that. In hindsight, that might have been a mistake.Gerry Cooney
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.
Garry Trudeau -
It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
Samuel Butler -
Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
Gary Johnson -
I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.
Oliver Reed
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I had an amazing childhood.
Abbie Cornish -
Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.
Eddie Slovik -
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
Ian MacKaye -
I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
Magic Johnson -
In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.
Naftali Bennett -
Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.
Lajos Kossuth
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy.
Irvine Welsh -
You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.
Kate McKinnon -
Have confidence in everything. No matter what it is that you're doing, know that you can do it better than anyone.
O'Shea Jackson, Jr. -
It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.
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I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.
Carl Yastrzemski -
We've almost been wiped out as a species many times, going back millions of years, and we've survived by reinventing ourselves and enlarging our circles of awareness, inventing new technologies and social structures.
David Grinspoon -
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
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Some people learn by the mistakes of others, but most of us are the others.
William Prescott -
The bad press came because they thought I should fight more. I couldn't get the fights because if I would sign to fight one of King's guys I would be signed to him. I chose not to do that. In hindsight, that might have been a mistake.
Gerry Cooney