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 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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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 was a great privilege for me and my teammates to follow in the footsteps of sporting greats like Roger Federer and Tiger Woods.
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I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off.
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I supported and voted for the public option in the version of the Affordable Care Act passed by the U.S. House. Had it been incorporated into the final version of the ACA, it would have done much to increase the competitiveness of ACA Exchange Marketplaces.
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Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.
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Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis.
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A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.
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When I talk to youngsters today, especially those involved in athletics, I tell them to get their education first.
