Barry McGuigan Quotes
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
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Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.
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I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.
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If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!
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It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript book of his poems, written out in the clear beautiful Irish characters.
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No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
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The Reagans were dear friends for many years, even when he was governor of California. Nancy appreciated a lot of Philippine-made things.
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If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I don't watch TV.
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I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
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In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.
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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
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I'm not the hands-on guy. I like writing the check, and I turn it over to the guys that make it happen, much like the way I ran my business.
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In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.
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Where I come from, people will spit at you if they think you support Enbridge.
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I'm not surprised by hardly anything anymore.
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I respect Donald Trump's children. His children are incredibly able and devoted, and I think that says a lot about Donald. I don't agree with nearly anything else he says or does, but I do respect that. And I think that is something that as a mother and a grandmother is very important to me.
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Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.
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Trainers give of themselves. So, I learned and I projected it with my fighter.
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In a way I guess I'd be a bad judge of what it was like because it just seemed perfectly normal to me.
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I think that everybody wants to be heard, and the easiest way to be the loudest is to be the hater.
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A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.
