"I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me."

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Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

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“If God exists, there's no way he's French”
“I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can. Flannery O' Connor said that anyone who has survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his or her life. Maybe your childhood was grim and horrible, but grim and horrible is Okay if it is well done. Don't worry about doing it well yet, though. Just get it down.”
“It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it is also absolutely true that other things are never equal and can never be equal.”
“Thanks to modern medicine we are no longer forced to endure prolonged pain, disease, discomfort and wealth.”
“I decided to join the military to give back to my country and help pay for college.”
“When you have a memorable story about who you are and what your mission is, your success no longer depends on how experienced you are or how many degrees you have or who you know.Â A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers, and opens doors.”

Source : "TOMS founder credits success to curiosity, powerful story". Interview with Steve Kuhlmann, www.mrt.com. March 23, 2015.
“By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' and others. You just never know, do you?”
“I am truly independently owned and operated.”

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