Lennox Lewis Quotes
The media can make boxers, controls who makes it big and who doesnt. They can build up fighters or knock them down.
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
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I luckily had a very charming, lovable mom who I think everybody could see bits and pieces of their mom in.
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I came across 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller in one of the most romantic ways one can find a story. I was digging through a pile of used books at my local library when my hand gravitated toward its brilliant teal and glistening gold cover.
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If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.
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I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes.
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Contempt is the only asymmetrical facial expression, so it's easy to spot once you're aware of its signs. One researcher has successfully tracked it in couples as a predictor of divorce. When someone is angry at you, you've still got traction with them, but when they display contempt, you've been dismissed.
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Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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From the days of Cain and Abel, we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn't take away our freedoms.
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My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.
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I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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One of the hopes we have when we hear or read an interview with a mystery writer is to get inside the writer's head, to learn something we didn't know before.
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I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.
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I don't look for anybody to pay for health care for me and my family. That's my responsibility.
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I love coming to Detroit. First getting to be buddies with Kid Rock in the beginning, and him being really great to us, showing us love, the love of the city. I feel like it's our city now, too.
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There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 minute CD is too long. We thought about making two CDs, 35 minutes each... But the songs need to breathe.
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I can't cater to everyone's needs and what they're going to be offended by; that's one freedom I have.
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Before we have children, we think most of the parents sitting in sacrament meeting ought to “do something about their kids.” Once we have kids, we think everyone ought to be a lot more understanding about what we’re trying to survive during the meeting. And once our kids are grown, we think, “I never let my kids get away with that.” We really all need to chill out.
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It doesn't matter in MMA if you're a woman or a man. You're going to fight 5 rounds, 5 minutes per round. If they want a real world champion, then the fights should be 12 rounds, 3 minutes per round for a woman boxer and you'll weed out some of the world championship fighters.
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It was like that. Sometimes I'd go for a period—days or weeks—without feeling the full sweep of my loss, and then as unexpected as a thunderclap, the realization would rip the protective coating from my senses. Maybe that's the way it is with trick knees and aging griefs. Totally pain free one moment and absorbingly painful the next.
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Always the journey, never the destination.
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The media can make boxers, controls who makes it big and who doesnt. They can build up fighters or knock them down.
