LeRoy Neiman Quotes
Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.
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I fantasized being a broadcaster.
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When I finished the trilogy of 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies, I had a gear shift and thought, 'I need to take a moment to smell the roses.'
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe.
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Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.
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I believe to have been one of the rare drivers to have returned to Ferrari.
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
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My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables.
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There's depth in my comedy.
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We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
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Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
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I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.
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I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
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Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
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Early '90s, I was big, big into Sinatra. I was in college. I was fascinated.
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I think the tour is doing a better job of showing off the personalities of the players with their website, which is filled with tidbits of what the players are up to.
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I think the media, the boxing public hasn't seen me at my best simply because great opposition brings out the best in you.
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I tell you, it was kind of two-fold. I fortunately had a lot of support. My coach was amazing - he told me to focus on being prepared and that is what I did. Every athlete is nervous - any athlete who tells you they're not nervous isn't telling you the truth. I was as prepared as I could be.
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I loved the music, but the excesses of rock n' roll never really appealed to me at all. I couldn't see the point of getting up in front of a lot of people when you weren't in control of your wits.
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Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.
