Andre Ward Quotes

I don't come from a position that I am better than everybody; I come from a position that I had a tough upbringing. And I don't always highlight it, because I just never wanted to be that person with another rags to riches story.

Andre Ward

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• There are just so many young designers now.

  

  Jack McCollough
  • Young
  • Just
  • Now

• I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Bad

• I discovered the theater when I was in the first grade.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • First
  • Theater
  • Grade

• Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Soul
  • Man
  • Interesting

• That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Military

• I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Up
  • Bored
  • Three

• At that point, there will be the handover between the shuttle arm and the station arm so that the shuttle arm will take the cradle and put it into the cargo bay.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Will
  • Point
  • Arm

• Growing up, I was so shy, but it was weird because I was the complete opposite on stage. I was just free to be myself.

  

  Manika
  • Up
  • Free
  • Growing

• I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • May
  • Experience

• I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black.

  

  Larry Rivers
  • People
  • Black
  • Saying

• If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • You
  • King
  • Bus

• There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• Anyone who has grown up in Delhi knows it's horrible.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Up
  • Horrible
  • Delhi

• I watch children a great deal; their idea is that rules are always negotiable, whereas you absolutely cannot joke at the airport about your toothpaste, and you cannot rollerblade in Grand Central Station. I keep running up against these things.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Up
  • Great
  • Children

• We've been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can't do - about what is impossible.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Time
  • Impossible
  • Little

• In the first week of release, 'Beasts Of No Nation' was the most watched movie on Netflix, in every country we operate in.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Country
  • Movie
  • First

• In 1975, I left the burning city of Beirut for the quiet insanity of England. To say that short, frail and wispy 15-year-old me didn't fit in would be such an understatement as to be a joke.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • City
  • Short
  • Insanity

• Michael Landon was the biggest influence. As a child, I watched him write, direct, star, and produce a TV show every week. He showed me what was possible.

  

  Patrick Labyorteaux
  • Me
  • Star
  • Child

• This act demonstrates graphically a turning away the past and moving ahead. You now get to refresh your time in a friendly way by running with the watch instead of against it or away from it.

  

  Joe Henderson
  • Time
  • Past
  • Running

• Then Saturday Night Live spawns... well, everything right down to American Pie 9, where all humor has to be irrelevant, which can get a little tiring.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Live
  • American
  • Night

• I did a little modeling in Minnesota, but because I was a heavier 'model,' I didn't pursue it much when I lived there.

  

  Brianna Brown
  • Model

• First of all, I was a good Christian kid. My mom and dad taught me never to fight. So I never fought. The other kids picked that up right away. They said, 'Oh, he's not going to try to do anything.' They'd push me, shove me, hit me. I'd just stand there and take it.

  

  Frank Peretti
  • Up
  • Good
  • Kids

• The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success.

  

  Wilhelm Keitel
  • Women
  • Means
  • Troops

• I don't come from a position that I am better than everybody; I come from a position that I had a tough upbringing. And I don't always highlight it, because I just never wanted to be that person with another rags to riches story.

  

  Andre Ward