Ken Norton Quotes
I lost my edge for boxing, I didn't put as much into it as I did before. I didn't run as far. I didn't train as hard. I didn't eat correctly. I started drinking a little bit every now and then.
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
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My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
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My idea of fast food is a mallard.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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I learned a tremendous amount about dialogue because I suffered as an actor.
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They're dressing like in the 50's when they come out to the shows, and many of them have vintage cars.
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India needs to sustain its high growth rate.
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Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
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Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
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Sometimes I can wake up and I can beat anyone.
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Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we acknowledge our need for their different insights and perspectives, the more they will be magnetized to join us.
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As artists, we have an opportunity to help the public evolve, raise consciousness and awareness, teach, heal, enlighten and inspire in ways the democratic process may not be able to touch. So we keep it moving.
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The people decide who's No. 1, the best in boxing.
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If I go to the department store, I get no excitement: I can buy the entire department store instead of one bag. So I lost excitement of shopping.
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I lost my edge for boxing, I didn't put as much into it as I did before. I didn't run as far. I didn't train as hard. I didn't eat correctly. I started drinking a little bit every now and then.
