Lennox Lewis Quotes

I've found that taking shortcuts will get you to the place you don't want to be much quicker than they get u to the place u want to be.

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• I was 47 when I got pregnant. I'd been trying for a couple of years and thought it would never happen.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Trying
  • Never
  • Couple

• The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Change

• When I was in college, I was always saying I was a socialist.

  

  Edmund White
  • College
  • Always
  • Saying

• We feel like 'Lost' deserved a real resolution, not a 'snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black' kind of ending. We thought that would be kind of a betrayal to an audience that's been on this journey for six years. We thought that was not the right ending for our show.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Up
  • Real
  • Dream

• I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

  

  Cavour
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Truth

• I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • World
  • Why
  • Father

• The key to success for any woman who wants to have a really serious career and a family is to marry a guy who is going to take at least half the responsibility for the house and kids - and sometimes more than half.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Guy

• Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Book
  • Read
  • Necessary

• It's important to understand that one gender is not superior to the other.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Important
  • Gender
  • Other

• We were all Romans once, I guess.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Guess
  • Once
  • Romans

• Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Reason
  • Spirit
  • Genius

• Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!

  

  Fay Wray
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• When I think about somebody like Keira Knightley, whom I don't particularly know, I see somebody who is working hard, really trying to challenge herself and make smart choices in spite of people criticising her size and performances.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Trying
  • Challenge

• My white counterparts are always pushing the line, and they are fearless, so why can't I do that, too?

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Why
  • Always
  • White

• When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Bad
  • Hope
  • Thought

• One Indian-inspired favourite of mine is mashed potato mixed with lemon juice, breadcrumbs, coriander and chilli, shaped into patties, fried and served with chutney and yoghurt.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Inspired
  • Mine
  • Juice

• 'How much do babies cost?' said heThe other night upon my knee;And then I said: 'They cost a lot;A lot of watching by a cot,A lot of sleepless hours and care,A lot of heart-ache and despair,A lot of fear and trying dread,And sometimes many tears are shedIn payment for our babies small,But every one is worth it all.

  

  Edgar Guest
  • Trying
  • Heart
  • Night

• 'Beautiful things may be admired, if not loved,' asserted the Tin Man. 'Flowers are beautiful, for instance, but we are not inclined to marry them. Duty, on the contrary, is a bugle call to action, whether you are inclined to act, or not. In this case, I obey the bugle call of duty.'

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • May
  • Beautiful
  • Action

• Women are usually only interesting to studio executives when they are fecund, between the ages of 15 and 30. I decided to get through the really tough patch, around 50, by just cutting my price and playing ten years older. I didn't want to have to wait until I was an old lady to play one.

  

  Tyne Daly
  • Women
  • Interesting
  • Cutting

• Even though I never really had to pound the pavement as an actor, I always worked really hard. But, at the same time, I always felt like people thought that I didn't have to struggle even though I was struggling.

  

  Winona Ryder
  • Actor
  • Pavement

• I think that what happened is that we grew up with the Holocaust within us. It turned us into harsh, emotionally incapable people who have become blind to what they are doing to other people. A lot of times, Holocaust abuse justifies terrible things done to the Palestinians. And you have to realize that what is going on is terrible, and that we are responsible, and we have to take responsibility - even if we are not completely responsible.

  

  Eytan Fox
  • Responsibility
  • Blind
  • Holocaust

• I really like school. I like going to school, which sounds a bit stupid, but I do. And I love the social aspect of it: it keeps me grounded, and it's nice to have that routine.

  

  Angourie Rice
  • School
  • Nice
  • Stupid

• I've found that taking shortcuts will get you to the place you don't want to be much quicker than they get u to the place u want to be.

  

  Lennox Lewis