Andre Ward Quotes
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I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
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Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
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We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the oceans. I've gotta save the dolphins. All worthy efforts, but if you're not centered and you don't have the serenity in your life you need to accomplish that task, you're not going to do a very good job.
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I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.
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It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.
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My English was limited to vacationing and not really engaging with Americans. I knew 'shopping' and 'eating' English - I could say 'blue sweater,' 'creme brulee,' and 'Caesar salad,' - so I came here thinking I spoke English.
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I don't know what 'normal' means, anyway.
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If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.
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Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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What I've been conscious of, from the beginning is that I can't be Jil Sander.
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Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
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I'm feminine, but I wouldn't say that I'm girly in any way at all.
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It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.
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In America and in most of the industrialized world, men are coming to be thought of by feminists in very much the same way that Jews were thought of by early Nazis. The comparison is overwhelmingly scary.
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I'm really sick of anthems. Every song has to be a very big singalong thing - it feels very Eighties. There are a lot of 'whoah whoa whoahs,' this stadium thing. You're even getting that from some of the 'folk' groups. I can't stand it.
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I am a living soap opera.
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Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.
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My parents are my biggest influences. My parents and my city. Brooklyn, New York, New York City, the community I grew up. I don't feel like I'm special in that. I feel like that's everybody.
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If, as Emerson wrote, every word was once an idea, every cliché was once a revelation.
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When we look at a good deal of serious modern fiction, and particularly Southern fiction, we find this quality about it that is generally described, in a pejorative sense, as grotesque. Of course, I have found that anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the Northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.... Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.
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Sometimes the biggest statements you can make are by living something out.
