Dick Schaap Quotes

I think on balance, Don King has been bad for boxing. I think he's done some very good things and I think he did a heck of a job of promoting Ali but I think I could have promoted Ali.

Dick Schaap

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 27, 1934 - December 21, 2001

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From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.

Jim Lovell

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I want to sing for the broadest possible audience.

Mel Torme

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I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth.

Maya Angelou

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You know, I was such a big Beatles fan, and when I'd buy a new album I'd invariably hate it the first time I heard it 'cause it was a mixture of absolute joy and absolute frustration. I couldn't grasp what they'd done, and I'd hate myself for that.

Andy Partridge

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What is very interesting when talking about electronic music is that - I would say that rock and roll is called the ethnic music born in America that invaded the world. Electronic music is certainly kind of ethnic music born in countries like Germany and France that has invaded the world.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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Lot of things depend on the up bringing of a child.

Shiv Khera

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I was a Spanish dancer. I don't mean to put that down, because that was great, too, but nothing like the kind of dancing you had to do in 'West Side Story,' which was called jazz.

Rita Moreno

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I wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't know that. Let's go out and fix it.'

Jonathan Kozol

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Britain has supported theocrats and dictators as long as it served British business interests, whether under Tory or Labour rule.

Deeyah Khan

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I learned to read music when I was 10 and did piano and took lessons.

Chris Cornell

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I stopped this one about two months before federation and I want the next one to be more political. It will deal with the formation of white Australian policy and things like that.

Colleen McCullough

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TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.

Connie Nielsen

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