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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The President has no real plan to address the fiscal challenges arising from the retirement of the baby boom generation, let alone a plan to fix Social Security.
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I like to keep it really balanced to give my body energy and also be healthy.
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I kind of love coming home and being with family and feeling comfortable and knowing where I come from; I kind of like it.
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Some of the best tape that I've ever studied was Mike Shanahan and John Elway in Denver, back-to-back Super Bowl win teams.
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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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.
