Andre Ward Quotes

I didn't need to get knocked down to know the fortitude that I have in me.

Andre Ward

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• If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Know
  • Feel
  • Strange

• For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Woman

• Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.

  

  Barnabe Barnes
  • Sweet
  • Where
  • Content

• When I was singing Jamie's Cryin', people were going out of their mind because it was the first time they got to see Eddie, Michael and Alex play those songs. That was a thrill.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • People
  • Time
  • Mind

• I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • War
  • Want
  • Best

• I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Hate
  • Animals
  • Loss

• Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Couple
  • Find

• Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Love
  • Change
  • Respect

• As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Earth
  • Miracle
  • Face

• I was a filmy kid. I was two when I faced the camera for the first time. My parents realised it pretty early, and I'm really thankful to them for their support and help.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • Help
  • Pretty

• A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • People
  • Trying
  • Play

• 'Molly's Game' was a true story about a remarkable young woman named Molly Bloom. She was this close to going to the Olympics; she was ranked third in North America in women's moguls.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Women
  • She
  • America

• I am frequently attacked.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Attacked

• 'No one can make you successful; the will to success comes from within.' I've made this my motto. I've internalized it to the point of understanding that the success of my actions and/or endeavors doesn't depend on anyone else, and that includes a possible failure.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Success
  • Understanding
  • Failure

• A lot of times, we get stuck, and we are followers. When you hear one person say, 'black lives matter,' or 'blue lives matter,' all lives matter. It's not right what is going on in this world on both sides.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • World
  • Black
  • Blue

• The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

  

  Eden Phillpotts
  • Universe
  • Waiting
  • Brainy

• The Qur'an is in many ways far less concrete than the Bible, relying on the esoteric more often than the apparent.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Bible
  • More
  • Concrete

• There are folks who we have a moral responsibility to help, who are going to cost the taxpayers lots of money in the future, so there's a strong argument for us to help them with current cash.

  

  Kevin Hassett
  • Money
  • Help
  • Future

• Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me into gibbering weeping hells of pain that no torturer could ever devise".

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Pain
  • Hell
  • Angelic

• As far as I'm concerned, collaboration is the essence of life. It's wonderful to be able to have talents, and, very often, we think that we know what our talents are, or we find out through a back door that we have a talent. I know that I found out I was a lyricist quite through a back door.

  

  Lesley Gore
  • Life
  • Door
  • Collaboration

• War, in our country, ought never to be resorted to but when it is clearly justifiable and necessary; so much so as not to require the aid of logic to convince our understanding nor the ardour of eloquence to inflame our passions. There are many reasons why this country should never resort to it but for causes the most urgent and necessary.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • Country
  • Why
  • War

• We've been fully involved in making our music, and to be personally involved is what we really asked for.

  

  Dinah Jane Fifth Harmony
  • Music
  • Involved
  • Asked For

• I didn't need to get knocked down to know the fortitude that I have in me.

  

  Andre Ward