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“Boxing is a business and if it makes sense, other than my brother (Anthony), damn right I'll fight him.”
Source : Source: www.boxinginsider.com
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“Martial arts are art forms and require a great deal of discipline and dedication. I so admire people who focus their lives on it, because it's not an easy thing to do.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Comeback records always worry me, especially when they're made by one of my heroes, and I'd heard stories about Gil Scott-Heron recently, about drug arrests and prison terms and other troubles. I wasn't prepared for the ravaged shakiness of his voice on this record or the raw spoken word pieces or the dark electronic backgrounds.”
Source : "A Surprising Record From Gil Scott Heron". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. February 11, 2010.
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“The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value.”
Source : Denis Dutton (2009). “The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, & Human Evolution”, p.5, Oxford University Press, USA
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“I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, I could get used to this. And I just never stopped.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“We have to cross the boundary between knowing and not knowing many times before we achieve understanding.”
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“I think growing up, we always try to make sense of who we are, what we go through, and I grew up in a very religious household. I interpreted what was wrong with me through religious language and I concluded, probably because of a combination of forces around me, that there was something in me that God didn't like or was unhappy with. Since these problems were in large part congenital, that meant that I was doomed from the beginning. I didn't have a chance.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.”