Andre Ward Quotes

It's not just fleet of foot or speed. It's about who gets caught and gets knocked out.

Andre Ward

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• I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I've always played the mom and I play my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • House
  • Girl
  • Mom

• 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.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Work
  • Family
  • Fun

• Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Creativity
  • Creation
  • Meaningful

• 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.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Water
  • Childhood
  • Sea

• When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Life
  • Time
  • Fight

• 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.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• 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.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Amazing
  • Crazy
  • Myself

• To fight for one's country, to offer one's very life to promote the well being of the United States, is truly a noble undertaking. But so is the vigilance of the citizen who carefully examines our leaders to see if political problems are being solved by wars simply because this seems to be the easiest solution.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Life
  • Country
  • Political

• 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.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Work
  • Soul
  • Day

• Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Together
  • Wisdom

• 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.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Friends
  • Night
  • Universe

• 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.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Up
  • See
  • Stand

• The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Business
  • First Amendment

• 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.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Time
  • Long
  • Question

• 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.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Want
  • Impact

• 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.

  

  Adam Giles
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • You

• Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience's defection to other forms of entertainment.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Audience
  • Entertainment

• One of my officers said to me that Trinidad and Tobago is seen like an ATM card... you come in with the card and you come back out with cash. It cannot happen anymore. It just cannot happen.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • You
  • Me
  • Said

• 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.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Job
  • Trust

• '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.'

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• I'm not around real dead people all that often - most people aren't - but when you are, you tend to be very, very respectful and quiet, and people do tend to whisper 'cause you're trying to show massive amounts of respect, but if this is your daily life, you have to figure out a way to go about it and not go insane by the time you reach Friday.

  

  Brian Dietzen
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Teenager

• I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you're a guy who generates money, people have a vested interested in controlling you.

  

  Dave Chappelle
  • People
  • Money
  • Guy

• It's not just fleet of foot or speed. It's about who gets caught and gets knocked out.

  

  Andre Ward