Andre Ward Quotes
It's not all the time, but you get a sense when you're reading something that it's no longer about boxing or the performance. It's personal.
Quotes to Explore
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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If you put up a blog, people can cut out the middle man and get material to you. Which is really helpful because a lot of time there's really cool stuff out there that we just don't see. Because, y'know, the agent is acting in our best interest, but it does sometimes prevent some of the good stuff from getting through.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.
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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.
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It's an individual sport; you want to do well for yourself.
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Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
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I don't have many friends.
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I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.
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There was no Groundlings or Upright Citizens Brigade where I was from. Looking back on it, I was trying to do sketch comedy in my stand-up, which is still kind of what I am doing now. To go full-circle here, it's kind of like one-man sketch.
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The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century - it was actually mummified, skin and all - but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.
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Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
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I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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I do what I do best - and that's take it away from every one else.
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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.
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It's not all the time, but you get a sense when you're reading something that it's no longer about boxing or the performance. It's personal.
