Sugar Ray Leonard Quotes

Boxing is a sport, but it's also entertainment. I wanted to transcend the sport and be considered just not as a fighter, or a champion, but someone very special.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.

Robert Benton

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A thing may fail as a poem because it tries to do what a poem cannot do: it tries to become a treatise on cosmic truth... We can best be exact about the cosmic things - God and truth, beauty, eternity and love - by not talking directly about them.

Miller Williams

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I went to school for creative writing in college, and I wound up about six hours short of my degree.

Jason Isbell

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First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.

Donald Rumsfeld

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Not to take anything away from artists who don't write their own songs, but it's always been important to me to make sure it's my story.

Brantley Gilbert

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When I'm on the track, I like hearing the fans cheer me on.

Ashton Eaton

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Everybody has to put purees underneath everything now. It's like people think we need the steak, and then we need some baby food with it.

Wolfgang Puck

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The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

William Temple

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Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church.

Peter O'Toole

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I wanted to be a horseback-riding trainer and to go to the Olympics as an equestrian.

Noah Cyrus

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Mention the name George W. Bush in mixed company, and you're likely to spark a lot of debate and emotion - hot and cold, good and bad. Not a lot of neutral reaction. He was elected in the most controversial contest in American electoral history and governed during one of the most tumultuous decades.

Mark McKinnon

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For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

Leonardo da Vinci

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