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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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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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 play baseball - 'The Show' - a lot. I'm pretty good at that. I go 'Road to the Show,' where you build your own player. I build myself when I used to play as a center fielder. Power, speed, stealing bases.
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I've done a lot of TV, but not film.
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On that subject I am coy.
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I write in my pajamas on my sofa surrounded by my cats. It's a bit isolating.
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I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.
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Good prayers never come creeping home. I am sure I shall receive either what I ask, or what I should ask.
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I get inspired by the notion of transforming people into extraordinary versions of themselves.
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We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It was closer to a one-act play than one-off sketches.
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There are times and places for tune-ups and stay-busy fights.
