Ken Norton Quotes
When I talk to youngsters today, especially those involved in athletics, I tell them to get their education first.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
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Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
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I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the opportunity to go to Britain's Central School of Speech and Drama, and my dad and I had a few tense words about that. He wanted me to go to British drama school.
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I know I had been successful in football. I had been successful in broadcasting. I didn't think that anything could touch me. I thought, I can beat anything.
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God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
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Anybody who's spent thirteen or fourteen years in print journalism has a lot of stories he thinks were inwardly satisfying as far as preparation, understanding, and diligence.
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One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
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I strongly believe that the Legislature should not be interfering in private medical decisions.
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If you're 15 and you tell someone a secret, they can put it up on Facebook. If you make a mistake, someone films it on their mobile and puts it up on YouTube. When you're 15, you deserve privacy.
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It's the nature of the freelancer: you never know where you're going to be. You get great opportunities, and you miss great opportunities all the time.
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I love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so early. And maybe they can achieve it, too, just to get that in their minds.
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The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.
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There were so many things of value in the original Mac that it is still recognizable.
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When I talk to youngsters today, especially those involved in athletics, I tell them to get their education first.
