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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I have this huge lion tattoo embossed on my arm. I was a little worried as to how we would cover it up. But my makeup man covered the tattoo with makeup. It took close to two hours.
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We're going to listen carefully to what the president has to say and we'll take it from there.
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This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy.
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There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.
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When I am around someone who is a joy stealer, I say to myself, I only have to deal with you for an hour. That person has to deal with thinking that way every moment of their lives.
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There are times and places for tune-ups and stay-busy fights.
