Laila Ali Quotes
I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
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I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
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As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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I am just so thankful that my mom was a fantastic mom. She wasn't a stage mother; she didn't push me. She was happy if I was happy. We are so different. I was very shy; my mom did all the talking. She was my strength. She never expected that I would be this ballerina.
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I learned from an early age that my heritage, my love for people, and my desire to be a vehicle that can be used through my voice, that my expressions and actions can transport a person to experience a scene from the past, present and future.
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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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I remember the great atmosphere and the great stadium.
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I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time.
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If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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I don't really know if I'm writing the kind of roles that Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore would play. Jessica Lange on 'American Horror Story' is a little bit more my cup of tea.
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One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal.
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Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.
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You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
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That's why people don't ever think to blame the Socs and are always ready to jump on us. We look hoody and they look decent. It could be just the other way around - half of the hoods I know are pretty decent guys underneath all that grease, and from what I've heard, a lot of Socs are just cold-blooded mean - but people usually go by looks.
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In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.
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You know, my daughters have been through their entire lives and knowing about my case.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
