Gerry Cooney Quotes

Like I say, boxing was on the floor, but it got back up.

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• That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Today
  • Television
  • News

• I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Political
  • Control

• Follow the yellow brick road.

  

  E. Y. Harburg
  • Road
  • Follow
  • Yellow

• Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Better
  • Laws
  • Legal

• I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Value
  • Guitarist
  • Passages

• I remember doing the sex scene in Red Rock West. I had to kiss Nic Cage and then look like I was going down on him. And he couldn't do anything - he just had to lie there.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Remember
  • Rock
  • Sex

• I was on Kanye's Yeezus tour as a dancer, but really, I was a Vanessa Beecroft model. I was one of the three 'dancers' who couldn't dance and was more of an accessory than an individual. Vanessa was pretty involved. Her style is about a lot of standing. It's very simple but haunting.

  

  Kacy Hill
  • Pretty
  • Simple
  • Style

• I would never want to be selected to a team just because I am going to set a record. It's critical to me to earn my way.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Team
  • Record
  • Earn

• Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Long
  • Problems
  • Ignore

• You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Always

• My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Home
  • Reality
  • Sleep

• I try and direct environmentally, so that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'action,' so that they can literally be swimming in the warm water, and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Free
  • Action

• I was in 30-plus clubs when I was 14 years old.

  

  T-Pain
  • Years
  • Old
  • Clubs

• It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Challenge
  • Serious
  • Security

• Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Character

• The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Happiness
  • Secret
  • Admire

• I've had a contemptuous relationship with authority throughout my life. I found myself at odds with authority, and I'm disdainful of blind authority.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Myself

• I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Know
  • Person
  • Kill

• Fighting forces, particularly ground forces, have to operate on the basis of unit cohesion.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Fighting
  • Ground
  • Cohesion

• If some glorious angel suddenly descended through my living room ceiling and offered to take away the children I have and give me other, better children — more polite, funnier, nicer, smarter — I would cling to the children I have and pray away that atrocious spectacle.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Children
  • Giving
  • Angel

• I don't think that that's a desirable option for us. Besides, it wouldn't work, because there are too many other countries that are willing to work economically with China. But I don't think the basic relationship depends on economics. It depends on a political understanding of what is required for peace in Asia.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • China
  • Relationship
  • Economics

• When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Made
  • Artists
  • Back

• Like I say, boxing was on the floor, but it got back up.

  

  Gerry Cooney
  • Boxing
  • Back
  • Floor