Lennox Lewis Quotes
Boxing involves the possibility of defeat, I accepted that very early on. After all, there are only two men and one of them wins.
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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I think being a woman and writing frankly about violence has gotten me some attention, and as someone who wants people to read my books, I can't complain about that attention, but it does puzzle me that this is something reviewers focus on.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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I was on Kanye's Yeezus tour as a dancer, but really, I was a Vanessa Beecroft model. I was one of the three 'dancers' who couldn't dance and was more of an accessory than an individual. Vanessa was pretty involved. Her style is about a lot of standing. It's very simple but haunting.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.
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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses.
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I've had a contemptuous relationship with authority throughout my life. I found myself at odds with authority, and I'm disdainful of blind authority.
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.
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Have confidence in everything. No matter what it is that you're doing, know that you can do it better than anyone.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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The play is done; the curtain drops, Slow falling to the prompter's bell A moment yet the actor stops And looks around to say farewell.
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Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.
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There's a truth to the violence of boxing. You have a very real threat, an opponent.
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My fighting style, if you will, is a combination of mimicking, cowboy films and boxing that I have done throughout my life.
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Boxing involves the possibility of defeat, I accepted that very early on. After all, there are only two men and one of them wins.
