Roy Jones Jr. Quotes

I always had a fetish for fighting big peoples. My dad put me in the ring with much bigger guys. In my first fight, I gave the guy a 14-pound advantage.

Roy Jones Jr.

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FightMeFightingRingFirstAlways

Public life has many more privileges than hardships.

John McCain

LifeHardshipsMoreThanPublic

The reality is that when you're a barrister, you're trained, and you've got ethical structures. You've got to follow the evidence, and that's that.

Robert Rinder

RealityYouFollowEvidenceEthical

I'm not really attracted to a big, jacked guy. I think that's a little excessive.

Stacy Keibler

ThinkLittleBigGuyI ThinkReally

The dramas that I worked on were successful, but not the movies. I still have many opportunities, and I will not be discouraged.

Song Hye-kyo

OpportunitiesMoviesWillSuccessful

The me you see on stage is largely a construct, based on me at my worst, my most annoying, my most petty, and my most patronizing.

Stewart Lee

MeYouWorstPettyStageSee

I said, to hell with the whole thing, to hell with show business. I'm gonna make a new life for myself, and I got off drugs, completely kicked all that stuff.

Tommy Kirk

LifeBusinessMyselfHellNew Life

In some ways, I've been left with this great 'idolic' image of my father, but there's a sense of absence, too. You miss his advice and, also, his getting to know the person I have become.

Rory Kinnear

FatherGreatAdviceYouPersonKnow

YouTube began as a failed video-dating site. Twitter was a failed music service. In each case, the founders continued to try new concepts when their big ideas failed. They often worked around the clock to try to overcome their failure before all their capital was spent. Speed to fail gives a startup more runway to pivot and ultimately succeed.

Jay Samit

FailureMusicServiceIdeasSucceed

I want to sit and be less career oriented. Snowboard, dirt bike, mountain bike, surf. Just be human. To me, that's an important part of life.

Jason Lewis

LifeBikeMountainMeCareerWant

I remember being 12 or 13 and reading 'Seventeen' and 'CosmoGirl.' They were all about self-improvement.

Petra Collins

ReadingRememberBeingSeventeen

I don't consider myself a social entrepreneur, but I'm thrilled to be doing good, if that's what I'm doing.

Perry Chen

GoodMyselfDoingEntrepreneur

I don't like age barriers. I don't like when people treat you differently when they find out how old you are.

Shawn Mendes

AgePeopleTreatYouFindBarriers

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