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.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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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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Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.
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I don't feel closeted.
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
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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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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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Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great.
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War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
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I think it's important to not always wear pants and not always wear dresses. You should and mix that up.
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I'd most likely be a helicopter pilot, or I'd own a really cool surf hotel somewhere on a beach.
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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.
