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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If other people want to say that I'm the next person in boxing, then that's up to them. That's their opinion.
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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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I'm an artist at heart.
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.
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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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This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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I'm at like 325 pairs right now, give or take. But I've given away about 200 pairs of sneakers. I'm not as big of a collector as I used to be, because I think the game just got weird. Everybody likes to collect now, so it's kind of corny. But I got the essentials.
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Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.
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Whenever you went into any place where there was Michael Jackson footage at Sony, it was like going through Homeland Security.
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All I can say is you don't know what's going to be on the front page of tomorrow's newspaper. So I take no joy in what happens to another sport, whether it's about a perfect game or an issue of conduct.
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There are a lot of problems in this country having to do with permissiveness.
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No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.
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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.
