Laila Ali Quotes
Everyone wouldn't just accept that I wanted to be a fighter - because I wasn't someone that they envisioned could or would be a fighter.
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I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
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The magical and fantastical isn't something I'm uncomfortable with in books, and I chafe slightly at the idea that a purely realist novel somehow has more value.
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I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.
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Justice is revenge.
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There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
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I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.
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Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
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You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.
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The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
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Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
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If the Chinese can't buy U.S. products, they'll buy them from European countries and then develop stronger economic ties with France and Germany and perhaps side more with those countries when international issues flare up.
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I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I'm living proof; it's very real.
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If parents don't like some of the stuff I do then they shouldn't let their kids watch me.
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With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.
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Shorts wager on price declines by selling shares that they have borrowed in the hope of buying them back at far lower prices.
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I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
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When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.
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Every fight and every loss taught me something.
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My brothers were big car guys.
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[Falling pound] makes us more competitive.
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I have sometimes thought that all professional lectures on rationality should be delivered while wearing a clown suit, to prevent the audience from confusing seriousness with solemnity.
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I like to put a record on and then listen to it again and then sit down and make my friends listen to it.
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Ibotta represents the future of how mobile technology will be used to drive both in-store and online sales. Not only does Ibotta allow retailers to drive sales directly in store, but it also allows them to see what type of media engagement has the largest effect on resulting customer purchases.
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Everyone wouldn't just accept that I wanted to be a fighter - because I wasn't someone that they envisioned could or would be a fighter.
