Lennox Lewis Quotes
Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist. .
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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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'Harry Potter' really harnessed the imagination of so many young-adult minds, and it's the same with the 'Divergent' series.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
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A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
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I can't wait to get my face lifted but my husband says, 'No, don't do it.' I think if it makes you feel better, go for it, but it would be nice if it looked good. There are a lot of people out there who are disasters and you think, 'Why did you do that?'
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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I love action movies.
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The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
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I'd love to do movies and be on TV. But I think if I transitioned into TV/film completely, I would really miss singing and dancing. It would be ideal to be cast in a movie musical!
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment.
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I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it.
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There's something different about growing up black and Muslim, especially in New Jersey. It's like when I left the mosque and I left my dad, I felt unprotected, but I also felt a weird sense of pride, like I was involved in this other way of living that was cool to me.
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I feel like my body is borrowed and this life is very temporary.
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Questioning one's own 'top-level' goals always reveals the paradox-oscillation of ultimate purpose. How could one decide that a goal is worthwhile - unless one already knew what it is that is worthwhile?
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Often the lack of clear direction and goals can waste away our time and energy and contribute to imbalance in our lives. A life that gets out of balance is much like a car tire that is out of balance. It will make the operation of the car rough and unsafe. Tires in perfect balance can give a smooth and comfortable ride. So it is with life. The ride through mortality can be smoother for us when we strive to stay in balance.
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Why haven't you achieved your goals yet? What are your favorite excuses, and how do they hold you back?
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Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist. .
