"I tried to do the impossible on paper -- beat the middleweight champ coming up from 130 pounds."

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Oscar De La Hoya

#Paper Quotes #Pounds Quotes #Impossible Quotes

“Poetry is always close kin to the impossible, isn't it?”

Source : Reginald Shepherd (2007). “Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry”
“So, practice, particularly after you've attained a job, any kind of job, like playing with a four piece band, that's... an opportunity to develop.”
“It's not that we don't have talent in our country; the talent is, in fact, not required today.”
“In the 19th century, we devoted our best minds to exploring nature. In the 20th century, we devoted ourselves to controlling and harnessing it. In the 21st century, we must devote ourselves to restoring it.”
“This is a lesson about life: This is one person. This is another person. This is one person trying to understand another person, even though it doesn't have room to download the other person into it's brain. It cannot understand the other person, even though it tries to. So he ends up overflowing with knowledge.”
“It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.”
“There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.”
“I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.”

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