Andre Ward Quotes
Being a champion is not just being a frontrunner and being ahead, but it's facing adversity.
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I keep my perfume in the fridge. If someone sees me in the morning pushing aside the eggs to grab my perfume, it might look a little odd, but it's so refreshing to spray cold fragrance on your skin.
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Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.
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Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.
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All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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I am a very selfish person.
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Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.
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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
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The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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When I got married in Bucharest, there were 10,000 people on the street. People didn't go to work that day. It was emotional to see how people care about you. I didn't expect that.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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We all have heard it claimed that 13 is an 'unlucky number.' Indeed, there are many hotels in America that for this very reason claim not to have a 13th floor, in the sense that there is no button bearing the label '13' in their elevators (I recently stayed in one in New York, in fact).
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We like to be deceived.
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The experience of playing music at a young age really opens up one's mind to different melody in life itself, literally - like, when you've even played a recorder, or whatever, it becomes a lot easier to hear the beauty in a bird's song, or the quiet tune in a gentle rustle of the wind.
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It is... very helpful to think of adversity not so much as a threat to our peace of mind but rather as the very means by which patience is attained.
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I loved music. I played the piano. However I knew there was no way I could have successfully competed in that environment.
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Being a champion is not just being a frontrunner and being ahead, but it's facing adversity.
