Lennox Lewis Quotes
I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing. But on a serious note Canada has been kind to me.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
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Banks are there to support businesses that have justifiable needs.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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I'm absolutely convinced that the very small global warming we are experiencing is the result of natural causes. It's a cyclical phenomenon in the history of the Earth. The role of man is very small, almost negligible.
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People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
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Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn't what they wanted. So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people "Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work." And of course I'm very pleased if people like all of them, but I don't want them to feel deceived at any point.
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I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing. But on a serious note Canada has been kind to me.
