"The Pavlik fight was the first time I heard the masses put the word knockout attached to my opponent. I'm real keen on what people say. Ninety percent of it might be garbage, but something in there might be the plan. That woke me up and I knew I wanted to destroy."

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Bernard Hopkins

#Real Quotes #Fighting Quotes #People Quotes

“Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of oneâ€™s usual setting, the customary routine stripped away like so much wrapping paper, the traveller finds himself reduced to more modest proportions - but also more open to curiosity, to intuition, to love at first sight.”
“I've never felt that I've had some great fashion sense of my own - I tend to wear what my wife tells me to wear.”

Source : "Coco’s Boy Toy: Q&A With Alessandro Nivola". Interview with Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, wwd.com. September 18, 2009.
“There's no question young drivers have far more accidents than older ones-but is it our aim to keep them off the roads? Or to allow only rich young people (who can afford the premiums) to drive?”

Source : "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.
“I don't know, I'm literally the most awkward, socially strange person.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.”
“In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.”
“War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.”

Source : "The Pathway of Peace". Speech to the Canadian Bar Association, Montreal, Ontario. "The Pathway of Peace : Representative Addresses Delivered During His Term as as secretary of state (1921-1925)" by Charles Evans Hughes, September 04, 1923.
“[B]y far the larger number of the dreams... occurred towards dawn; sometimes even, after sunrise, during a "second sleep." A condition of fasting, united, possibly, with some subtle magnetic or other atmospheric state, seems therefore to be that most open to impressions of the kind.”

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