Andre Ward Quotes
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I've had laser eye surgery and I don't wear glasses any more, so people just go, 'You're not Damien Hirst.' I don't get recognized on the street.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.
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The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.
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Intermarriage is not a calamity but an opportunity for both a Jewish and non-Jewish partner to learn.
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There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do.
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I hear my own daughters talking about big companies polluting the environment, and then I realise they are talking about companies of which one I am running. But when I tell them to read the things we are doing, then they realise we are doing good things. But millennials are really a great lot.
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Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run.
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People aren't inherently sympathetic.
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My first album was called 'Badlands,' and it's something that I think I'm most proud of having done in my life.
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Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
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I've never been a fan of directors who clutter a piece with all sorts of crazy preconceptions or weird ideas.
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By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression.
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Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.
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Religion is defined by the relationship between God and man. And Islam is the submission and the acknowledgment of the human being to the creator.
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It is manifest therefore that they who have sovereign power, are immediate rulers of the church under Christ, and all others but subordinate to them. If that were not, but kings should command one thing upon pain of death, and priests another upon pain of damnation, it would be impossible that peace and religion should stand together.
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I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that.
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Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats-let you know if you're off course. But it ain't always possible.
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I was really freaked out when I heard that Cookie Monster was going to be changed to Veggie Monster, but that turned out to be a lie.
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I feel really fortunate to come from a home that was always supportive and stemming from creativity, integrity and building character.
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There are times and places for tune-ups and stay-busy fights.
