"Everyone wouldn't just accept that I wanted to be a fighter - because I wasn't someone that they envisioned could or would be a fighter."

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Source : Source: www.usmagazine.com

Laila Ali

#Fighter Quotes #Accepting Quotes

“The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.”
“The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction.”
“I've got a pretty good appetite right now.”
“Celebrity chefs are the leaders in the field of food, and we are the led. Why should the leaders of chemical businesses be held responsible for polluting the marine environment with a few grams of effluent, which is sublethal to marine species, while celebrity chefs are turning out endangered fish at several dozen tables a night without enduring a syllable of criticism?”

Source : Charles Clover (2008). “The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat”, p.189, Univ of California Press
“Love is nature's LSD. You're going to see things that aren't really there.”
“Why is it that what we do know can save us, but what we don't know can kill us?”

Source : T. A. Barron (2011). “Ultimate Magic”, p.102, Penguin
“When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises.”

Source : Franklin P. Adams (''F.P.A.'') (1944). “Nods and Becks”
“People say things about me all the time and I get over it. I've had some appalling things told about me.”

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