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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Since God is the foundation of my life, anything that streams from that can only be positive.
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We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose.
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The real meaning of eternal life is a life that can face anything is has to face without wavering. If we take this view, life becomes one great romance, a glorious opportunity for seeing marvelous things all the time. God is disciplining us to get us into this central place of power.
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To the extent that sacrifices need to be made, shouldn't the people who've made out like bandits this past generation be first in line? The problem with getting out of the slump is that we need to spend more. It's not that somebody needs to spend less. We have idle workers who have the skills and the willingness to work. We have idle factories. Dealing with this is not about saying somebody needs to suffer. It's saying that we need to be prepared to open the taps.
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Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment.
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There are times and places for tune-ups and stay-busy fights.
