Laila Ali Quotes

While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind was 'messing up my pretty face' when I was on my way to the ring to meet my opponent. Yet, people I'd meet along the way would always ask me if I was worried about my looks. Then they would go on to say that I was 'too pretty to box.'

Laila Ali

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 30, 1977

Topics

PeopleMindMeFaceThoughtMeet

You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.

Anna Deavere Smith

LongYouFlawsKnowIntimacyReal

Most of my life I've had long periods of feeling down and lost. That's why every five years or so I've smashed my life to pieces and started again.

Siobhan Fahey

LifeMy LifeLongFeelingDownLost

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.

Ruth Benedict

WarFindWillBearAlwaysBecause

Hollywood will put you in a box, so to speak. Some people will have seen you in 'La Bamba' or another dramatic film and think, 'Okay, that's what Lou does.' But they don't really have an idea of the range or diversity that I can bring to a project.

Lou Diamond Phillips

DiversityPeopleSpeakThinkYou

I love the outdoor festival feeling.

Joshua Bell

LoveFeelingFestivalOutdoorI Love

I like discovering stories where I'm laughing and I'm learning. It's like, 'How was I never taught that in school?'

Derek Waters

LearningSchoolNeverWhereLaughing

I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater preponderance of work then than there is now.

Don Cheadle

WorkBlackNowMoviesRenaissance

Good words will not give me back my children.

Chief Joseph

GoodChildrenWordsMeBackWill

Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

Colin Quinn

ComedyYouEarlyDaysGetThose

I'm inspired by being in a different town every day - all the people I meet, all the things I see. There's no way of compartmentalizing everything in my head; whatever I'm taking in is coming out in some way. I think I love painting so much because, for me, it's so fast. There's not too much thought in these paintings.

Alison Mosshart

LoveDayPeopleMePaintingThink

I'm hoping that maybe everyone on the Olympic team thinks that I'm worthy to carry the flag. That's my next goal, to carry the flag during the opening ceremonies, if everyone chooses me.

Picabo Street

MeTeamGoalFlagOpeningWorthy

There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.

Prince

MusicLawWillWithoutThroughTake

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