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.

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• I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Done
  • Hair
  • Often

• Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Good
  • Leadership
  • Teamwork

• 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.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Long
  • Political

• I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Desire

• 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.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Music
  • Think

• Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Black
  • Ancestors

• 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.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Reading
  • Crazy
  • View

• 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.

  

  Vernon A. Walters
  • Want
  • Attitude
  • Intelligence

• My favorite animal is steak.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Food
  • Animal
  • 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.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Up
  • Love
  • Child

• There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • American
  • Kind

• 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.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Way
  • Curiosity
  • Questions

• It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Work
  • Ultimate

• 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.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• 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.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Help
  • Child
  • Generation

• But whatever the ramifications, whatever turns the path takes, the beginning is always there, in a particular moment, a particular point of access.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Beginning
  • Path
  • Moment

• 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.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • People
  • Power
  • Yoga

• I just saw a clip of Maria Bamford. She has a comedy show that was filmed and performed from her bed - the whole thing supposedly takes place in her bedroom at her parents house in Duluth, MN. I thought it was great and really strange - to have a comedy special without having to leave your bed.

  

  Dana Schutz
  • Great
  • She
  • House

• Gossip columnists are diseases, like 'flu. Everyone is subject to them.

  

  James Goldsmith
  • Disease
  • Gossip
  • Subjects

• Well, if our author in the wife offendsHe has a husband that will make amends;He draws him gentle, tender, and forgiving,And sure such kind good creatures may be living.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Good
  • May
  • Wife

• Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.

  

  Bram Stoker
  • Mind
  • Feeling
  • Fear

• I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Fighting

• Racing's my life.

  

  Kevin Harvick
  • Life

• The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside.

  

  Lennox Lewis
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Compassion