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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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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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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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.
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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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While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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There is nothing quite as exciting as watching a master at work.
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I don't read reviews, and I try not to read articles about me. It taints your outlook: if you believe the good things, you've got to believe the bad things, too.
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When I talk to youngsters today, especially those involved in athletics, I tell them to get their education first.
