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Gerry Cooney Quotes

I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: August 4, 1956

Topics

Losing Champion Career Lost Three

I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?

Morning Writing Song Wonder Living

When I graduated, everyone was like, 'You got to do pop and R&B to make it,' like very contemporary pop and R&B. I tried for a little while, but I just realized my voice wasn't quite fitting some of the records that I was doing.

Voice Doing You Everyone Little Got

President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today.

Anna Deavere Smith

Inspirational Today Art Walls Brave

Football is in a guy's DNA. A primal thing. You should play it so you can talk about the glory days when you get older and drink Bud with the guys from the office. Get it done when you're young, while you have the chance.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

Football Chance You Play Done Young

Eight to ten years in a patrol car? I didn't have that in me.

Michael Connelly

Car Me Ten Years Years Ten Eight

I think my differences were, and my differences still are, that I don't really approach fashion in a fashiony way.

Stella McCartney

Fashion Think Differences Way Still

'The Daily Show' forced me out of my comfort zone.

Daily Me Comfort Zone Comfort Out

The fans have to realize that as opinionated as y'all are in the way you want it, the company is the same way, and they're gonna do what they wanna do... at the end of the day, I'm just a guy getting rich.

Day Rich End Of The Day End You Way

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

Poetry Write Poet Well Like

I think that Jews - because they are a distinct, gifted and successful group that differentiates itself from societies in which it lives - are vulnerable wherever the rule of law is not paramount.

Law Think Rule Of Law Group Wherever

My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that's an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal.

Family Mother Women Culture Me

Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody, and they meet at the bar.

Hate Job Support You Meet Group

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