Brin-Jonathan Butler Quotes

In the documentary 'Facing Ali,' nearly half the fighters involved required subtitles despite speaking English, their speech slurred by the physical toll of their ring lives. This was their reward for testing their furthermost physical and mental boundaries.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

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I love working with talented young performers.

Jodi Benson

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When I was 27 years old, I left a very demanding job in management consulting for a job that was even more demanding: teaching. I went to teach seventh graders math in the New York City public schools.

Angela Duckworth

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No matter how bad your life gets, you can always turn it around.

Steve Guttenberg

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Gymnastics is just one part of my life, and I'm having as much fun with it as possible.

Simone Biles

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But very often in politics we have the experience called up from my father when someone was trying to help him in the campaign: I can take care of my enemies, may the Good Lord save me from my friends.

Robert Foster Bennett

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For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.

Rita Dove

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A man should never pretend to be someone he's not to impress a woman. There is nothing sexier than an authentic man with integrity. Be who you are from the start. No games.

Mikaela Hoover

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There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together.

Michael Steele

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Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.

Derek Jacobi

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My long struggles as a soldier of the Chinese Revolution have forced me to realize the necessity of facing hard facts. There will be neither peace, nor hope, nor future for any of us unless we honestly aim at political, social and economic justice for all peoples of the world, great and small.

Chiang Kai-shek

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I actually did work and produced two short dissertations, one on Faulkner and one on the film criticism of the stream-of-consciousness novelist Dorothy Richardson.

Claire Messud

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Sly Stone made such a huge contribution to the good feeling in the universe, and I love him as a singer.

Boy George

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