"A self needed to spill out sometimes, a body should show evidence of what the hell went on inside it."

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Ben Marcus

#Self Quotes #Body Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“I think if you get the opportunity to try and become the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world and you turn your back on it, then you're a bit of a fraud.”
“When you get to the top, raise the top and climb some more.”
“The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary”
“He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.”
“I would never take a case that had to do with abusing children. They're the true innocents. All of the rest of us, we have smears and stains, but they're helpless. I couldn't add my talent, which is prodigious, to a defense of someone even accused of hurting a child. I would never defend a cop - though I did on a few private cases, when cops were acting not as cops but as private citizens. Other than that, I represented everybody who came by.”
“If the numbers we see in domestic violence were applied to terrorism or gang violence, the entire country would be up in arms, and it would be the lead story on the news every night.”
“Russia depends on natural resources way too much. Russian economy is not diversified enough”
“If they think they are doing something new, they ought to do what I do every day - spend at least two hours every day listening to Johann Sebastian Bach and, man, it's all there. If they want to improvise around a theme,which is the essence of jazz, they should learn from the master. He never wastes a note, and he knows where every note is going and when to bring it back. Some of these cats go way out and forget where they began or what they started to do. Bach will clear it up for them.”

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