"Boxing is show-business with blood."

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Source : Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

David Belasco

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“Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.”
“While woman sheds the Blood of Life each moon at menstruation, man can only shed the blood of death through warfare and killing.”
“My criteria for doing a television series never changed. I wanted more stability, I wanted more of a sense of family, I wanted to do light comedy.”
“Spin-off technologies are changing the culture. Even if you don't become an engineer you could be a poet, a journalist, a lawyer, but you will be thinking innovation and your actions within society, who you vote for, what you value, all become a participant in an innovation economy.”
“He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.”
“In a photograph, if I am able to evoke not alone a feeling of the reality of the surface physical world but also a feeling of the reality of existence that lies mysteriously and invisibly beneath its surface, I feel I have succeeded. At their best, photographs as symbols not only serve to help illuminate some of the darkness of the unknown, they also serve to lessen the fears that too often accompany the journeys from the known to the unknown.”
“One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the answer to any problem that is discussed.”
“I think that the inventors can do anything they want, and nobody can say anything otherwise.”

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