Lennox Lewis Quotes
The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
-
Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
-
There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
-
I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
-
When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
-
Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
-
At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.
-
Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.
-
My favorite animal is steak.
-
But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
-
There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
-
It's my approach as a filmmaker always to go in, not with a thesis or preconceived notion, but with curiosity and questions and inquiry. So in some way, I'm always surprised. I'm always finding paths of engagement.
-
It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
-
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
-
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
-
In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
-
Imagine if everyone was able to help just one child who needs to be listened to, needs to be respected, and needs to be loved - we could make such a huge difference for an entire generation.
-
But whatever the ramifications, whatever turns the path takes, the beginning is always there, in a particular moment, a particular point of access.
-
There are people doing yoga in New York, dancing around; that's the power of India. You go to a nightclub somewhere in Spain and there's Amitabh Bachchan on the screen there, dancing around. That's the power of India. That's the power of Indian people.
-
Why don't you sit right down and stay awhile? We like the same things and I like your style Its not a secret; why do you keep it? I'm just sitting on the shelf
-
I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
-
I must have some sort of record in failing to get into the charts.
-
The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside.
