Lou Ferrigno Quotes
Bodybuilding saved my life because I overcame the nerd stage. I got picked on. I was fascinated with power, and then I decided to take that direction because I knew that would make me feel good about myself.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.
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The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
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I have lived longer than you. I have thought more, and I have suffered more. And I tell you there is more truth to the fundamental nature of things in the most foolish fairy tales than there is in any of your complaints against life.
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If I'm in the car after a bad game, I may think about ways I need to improve. But the second I reach home, the game's over. Work doesn't come inside with me. Same thing in reverse - I don't bring my personal life into the ballpark. Learning to keep it all separate has made life easier.
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I've worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.
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Others will always seek to define you based on what they think you represent or who they think you are. But you have to be the one to control what you do and what you say and how you present yourself.
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Bodybuilding saved my life because I overcame the nerd stage. I got picked on. I was fascinated with power, and then I decided to take that direction because I knew that would make me feel good about myself.
