Roy Jones Jr. Quotes

I was so scared of my father. He'd pull up in his truck and start looking for something I'd done wrong. There was no escape, no excuse, no way out of nothing.

Roy Jones Jr.

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FatherTruckLookingStartWrong

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

Jerry Seinfeld

RoadTraveledSometimesReasonLess

I have a lot of land. I bought it because I had a very strong feeling. I was in my early twenties, and I had grown up in Los Angeles and had seen that city slide off into the sea from the city I knew as a little kid. It lost its identity - suddenly there was cement everywhere and the green was gone and the air was bad - and I wanted out.

Robert Redford

SeaIdentityCityGreenStrongBad

Most people presume my mustache is not real because it's much darker than my regular hair.

John Hodgman

PeopleHairMustacheRealBecause

When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

Robert Wyatt

SingingFeelComfortableTrySinger

To step into reverence for your body, you must pardon yourself for all you have done and not done to care for it. You must bless what works and accept and embrace all you perceive to be wrong.

Debbie Ford

YourselfStepCareYouBodyWrong

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

Bob Dylan

SkyBirdsFreeEvenChained

I was an accident - my mum was only 16 when she had me.

Bruce Dickinson

MeSheOnlyAccidentHadMum

You know, I like to climb trees and ride bikes and play.

Anthony Kiedis

RideClimbTreesYouPlayKnow

Touch is our most highly developed sense when we are born, and it remains a fundamental mode of communication throughout a baby's first year and an important influence throughout a person's life.

Leonard Mlodinow

LifeCommunicationBabyInfluence

When we were first offered a book deal prior to Avon's, they were trying to get us to change it from the first-person story into a how-to book, and they were offering us some decent money. My agent told me; 'you should really consider this'.

Kenny Loggins

ChangeMoneyMeBookStoryYou

The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none.

Leland Stanford

ConflictCountryLaborNeverHammer

No one knows 'men' as such, any more than anyone knows 'women,' and if they do generalise they're probably trying to hide their own ignorance. You might know one 'man,' yes, or even lots of individual 'men'.

Julie Burchill

WomenIgnoranceMenManYouHide

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