Leon Spinks Quotes
I didn't push Cory. I wanted him to decide if he wanted to go into boxing and he did. Can't blame it on me.
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The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.
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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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Follow the yellow brick road.
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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 am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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I would never want to be selected to a team just because I am going to set a record. It's critical to me to earn my way.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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After running for a while, things really start to open up in your body. I felt like I'd tapped into parts of my body that I hadn't before. I let things in the universe flow through me that opened me up in a really cool way.
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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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The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.
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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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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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It's pretty amazing being me.
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When I was younger and first started watching MTV I loved watching TRL. I loved watching my favorite singers/bands perform.
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Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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A boxing gym is a place where men are allowed to be kind to one another.
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I didn't push Cory. I wanted him to decide if he wanted to go into boxing and he did. Can't blame it on me.
