Leon Gast Quotes

Foreman had annihilated every single one of his opponents to that point, but here was Ali, going to Africa, selling himself as the 'real deal' black man.

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• The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Free
  • Gun
  • Going

• I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Think
  • Angry
  • Start

• Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • People
  • Attention
  • Hurt

• I am not a 'defender' of the September 11 attacks, but simply pointing out that if U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • Death
  • September
  • Innocence

• I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Like
  • Hip Hop

• But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.

  

  Patrick Geddes
  • Time
  • City
  • Space

• If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That's the entrance to Oneness. That's the space I entered when I met my guru.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Love
  • Together
  • Space

• Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • World
  • Trying
  • Understanding

• It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Faith

• I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Think
  • Lost
  • Movies

• What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • God
  • Done
  • Me

• Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Movie
  • Way
  • Stop

• Wherever there's an all-encompassing 'always,' 'all' or 'never' in your life, it's a sign that your mischievous subconscious is setting you up for failure by consistently leading you back toward these repeat performances.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Up
  • You

• When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.'

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Senior
  • Happening
  • Prom

• I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Think
  • Teach
  • Patience

• My mom taught me the power of love. I learned to focus on the long-term big picture from my father. His sense of humor and light-hearted approach always make me smile. My husband is a pivotal anchor in my life. His influence encourages me to be independent and take risks.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Life
  • Independent
  • For Her

• Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Nothing

• I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • World
  • Hope
  • Emotional

• The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it...but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Work
  • May
  • Help

• My career, I think, indicates I'm not afraid of anything.

  

  Jeanine Pirro
  • Career

• If someone said, 'You've got to eat your next two meals at American fast-food restaurants,' I would do one meal at Chipotle and one meal at Popeyes fried chicken.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • American
  • Food

• I have learned how to take votes where I had to hold my nose because I had to compromise - something that you learn to do, especially when you have been in the minority.

  

  Lois Frankel

• For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed.

  

  Mary Lou Retton

• Foreman had annihilated every single one of his opponents to that point, but here was Ali, going to Africa, selling himself as the 'real deal' black man.

  

  Leon Gast
  • Real
  • Black
  • Single