Lennox Lewis Quotes
A boxer should quit at the top, as they say. But thats complicated. There are plenty of people in boxing who make money out off you. And they tell you that youve still got it, that its still getting better.
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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If you're not in it you can't win it.
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Our career had a sort of funny shape.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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We believe that, ultimately, the most important learning occurs in the context of our day-to-day life, the aspirations we pursue, the challenges we face, and the responses we bring forth.
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One of the biggest turnoffs is being presented with an idea that's already, to a degree, complete. That's not an adventure, and it's not a learning experience. It's more of a chore. Then you become a technician with taste, as opposed to an explorer and an author.
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Buhhdism is wisdom. As long as we have wisdom, we can put all things to the best use, we can turn everything in the direction of happiness.
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I've always boxed, I always taught boxing.
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[Ending] is partly drawn from a desire to shock the audience, to brutally de-romanticize what many Americans think is happening overseas. And partly drawn from my own childhood: violence and a loss of innocence. But keep in mind that, as a writer, I'm both the criminal and the victim. I'm not trying to get out of anything easy.
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A boxer should quit at the top, as they say. But thats complicated. There are plenty of people in boxing who make money out off you. And they tell you that youve still got it, that its still getting better.
