"It's been like that forever. We got spoiled by Joe Louis, by Rocky Marciano. Muhammad ruined us for everybody. He was great outside [the ring]; he was great inside. We got so accustomed to it we thought we deserved it."

-- Angelo Dundee

#Boxing Quotes #Forever Quotes #Muhammad Quotes

“Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.”
“The people wanted to believe that the Negroes couldn't learn to read music but had a natural talent for it. So we never played with no music. I'd get all the latest Broadway music from the publisher, and we'd learn the tunes and rehearse them until we had them all down pat- never made no mistakes. All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music?”
“Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.”
“I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words.”
“Until you have hunted men, you havenâ€™t hunted yet.”
“I realized that I had granted my illness lordship over me. In viewing my depression as a despot subjecting me to its savage fancies, I was able to escape responsibility, to indulge fully my selfish desire to let my ego flourish unfettered, not obliged to anyone. But this wasn't freedom. It was a prison-a cell separating me from those who cared for me and for whom I might have cared.”

Source : Eric G. Wilson (2012). “Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck: Why We Can't Look Away”, p.128, Sarah Crichton Books
“I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.”

Source : "Jail time fails to curb Foxy's shopping habit" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2008.
“I'm always writing or playing because that is my life.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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