Laila Ali Quotes
Since I was a child, my father was sick. I've always known him to be that way. That's why I'm proud of him - he has a disease he's obviously struggling with, but he's not letting it stop him from doing what he wants to do.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.
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Teaching kids about health and fitness is important to me. It's about being fit for life.
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The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.
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If you hate the Jewish people, you are not reflecting the teachings of Christ.
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From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.
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You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
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Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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Of course all novelists are egomaniacs and want to draw everyone to their fold just like any other preacher. The snake-oil peddler, the false prophet, all of this is fascinating to me. But I certainly hope that I'm more humane than that.
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I remember someone telling me that when he saw the back of a woman's head, he knew that was the woman he was going marry. I laughed that away as silly talk. But I guess when a relationship has to happen, it happens seamlessly. Your partner just walks into your life.
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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
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My goal is to hit the gym every day I'm on vacation. Usually I just end up sleeping and drinking beer.
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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My father was never really the con-man type that the film shows him to be: he was straight as an arrow, though he did have problems with the IRS.
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When I go to the movies, I like to see something different.
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Good-quality protein is very hard to come by in prison. Tuna is good, but tuna doesn't have texture. Mackerel is meaty.
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Since I was a child, my father was sick. I've always known him to be that way. That's why I'm proud of him - he has a disease he's obviously struggling with, but he's not letting it stop him from doing what he wants to do.
