Laila Ali Quotes
		
	 
	
		
	
	
	
		While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind was 'messing up my pretty face' when I was on my way to the ring to meet my opponent. Yet, people I'd meet along the way would always ask me if I was worried about my looks. Then they would go on to say that I was 'too pretty to box.'
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Laila Ali 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
	Quotes to Explore 
		
	
	
	
	
	
		We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lacey Chabert 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Irwin Rose 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I do small things. I try to do good things every day. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jackie Chan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Raekwon 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ira Glass 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Samantha Power 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
		
	
	
	
	
		When I graduated, I was my biggest ever: 15 stone, with a boyfriend - my first - of just 11 stone. I was 23 years old. It wasn't just affecting my career: it was a health issue as well. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Maxine Peake 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming, it systematically forces tens of billions of animals to suffer in ways that would be illegal if they were dogs, it is a decisive factor in the development of swine and avian flus, and so on. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jonathan Safran Foer 
			 
		 
	
	
	 
	
	
	
	
		Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edgar Allan Poe 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				James Earl Jones 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Always lines, never forms. Where do they find these lines in Nature? Personally I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not, planes that advance and planes that recede, relief and depth. My eye never sees outlines or particular features or details...  ...My brush should not see better than I do. Goya, in a recall of an overheard conversation 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Francisco Goya 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind was 'messing up my pretty face' when I was on my way to the ring to meet my opponent. Yet, people I'd meet along the way would always ask me if I was worried about my looks. Then they would go on to say that I was 'too pretty to box.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Laila Ali