Laila Ali Quotes
I never ran with my dad. He was old-school. He had a whole different idea of training. He ran in steel-toed boots! But, of course, he's proud of me and proud of the boxer that I became.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Justice is revenge.
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The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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We care about margins.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.
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I'm not a sun person.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.
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Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies.
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The most violent element in society is ignorance.
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The lesson of 2008 is that ultimately our markets are driven by confidence.
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Let us teach our people again to be proud that they are Filipinos. Let us teach them to realize anew that being a Filipino means having as rich and noble a heritage of language, culture, patriotism and heroic deeds as any nation on earth. Let us teach a steadfast faith in Divine Providence, a stable family institution, the unhampered enjoyment of civil liberties, the advantages of constitutional government, the potentials of a rich and spacious land.
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Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when he really began to write music, he still was guided very much by his internal hearing, by what we call your internal ear.
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I champion sensibly designed racial affirmative action, not because I have benefited from it personally - though I have. I support it because, on balance, it is conducive to the public good.
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I never ran with my dad. He was old-school. He had a whole different idea of training. He ran in steel-toed boots! But, of course, he's proud of me and proud of the boxer that I became.
