Andre Ward Quotes
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The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
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Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.
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I was on the beach every summer. That was the pleasant part of my childhood because we were right by the sea. We'd take a picnic, and I'd spend hours in the water until I turned blue. You couldn't get me out of there.
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Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.
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I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor said to me the fact that I'm not living under a bridge as a crazy woman, talking to myself, is amazing.
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You can work really hard on your physicality, on your craft, on the films you do. You can choose the best of directors, the best of productions, get the best technicians, you can put your entire body and soul into the making of a film, but at the end of the day, it all depends on the mood of that one audience member that goes into that theater.
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
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My friends who have babies can't do anything. You can't go out at night. Having a baby is like a DUI from the universe.
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You see a lot of us lingering around. We'll just stand there on the edge of the pool and kinda psych ourselves up into getting in.
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The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right.
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There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of time. There's as much oil in the tar sands probably as there is in Saudi Arabia. The problem is, there's a huge capital requirement to develop that.
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When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you can either see it as an albatross or a calling card.
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If you've got kids who aren't being looked after by their parents, there's only so many times you can try and intervene to get that right.
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Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience's defection to other forms of entertainment.
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Those who hold the public trust must adhere to the highest ethical standards there are. The job requires it, and the public must demand it.
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'Barack Obama being elected. I think about how… um… how my sons will grow up only knowing a black President. Wells with tears I can’t explain how that’s changed America. There’s an optimism now that wasn’t there for black people.'
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... 'I wouldn't have her job'. Those who profess unquenchable love for the sovereign are adamant that she press on in a task that they consider killingly hard.
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Most unfortunately, Enron's plunge into bankruptcy court also cost many of its rank-and-file employees their savings.
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If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.
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The audiences are what keep me enthusiastic.
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Man is at his best when complimented by the influence of a good woman.
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Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.
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When I look at women, older than I am, in their 50s, 60, 70s, 80s, and I see women that I admire, I think, 'Oh, I get it; that's how I'm going to be.' I'm not scared. I want to be that.
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It's not just fleet of foot or speed. It's about who gets caught and gets knocked out.
