Laila Ali Quotes

My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.

Laila Ali

• People
• Me
• Dad
• Mood
• Laugh

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• First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.

  

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• What Washington needs is adult supervision.

  

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• I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.

  

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• Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.

  

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• You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.

  

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• I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.

  

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• What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

  

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• There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

  

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• I don't feel closeted.

  

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• I'm a big believer in keeping the stage directions really tight.

  

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• I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.

  

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• Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.

  

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• All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.

  

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• What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

  

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• There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

  

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• My girlfriend at the time convinced me to send these songs to Cavity Search. When they wanted to put out my record I was totally shocked.

  

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• My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Me
  • Dad