In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I … - Eddie Murphy

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False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

Eddie Murphy

In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!

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I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty.

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The competitions are as much a part of the tradition as the actual dances.

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I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I'm content to sit here and play my guitar all day.

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I don't think there's ever been someone with as much presence as Elvis Presley, I mean if he walked into a room I think everyone would be looking at only him. Even when he was dying and through all that when you looked at him it seemed all put together. It fascinates me.

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I spent my 30s fixing everything I broke in my 20s.

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I accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. That is the timeless thing.

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False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

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Emily Barton

[Michael] Chabon is arguing in favor of what is at the same time an old-fashioned and very forward-thinking opening up - of taking off the class associations with those labels, because we grew up, or I certainly grew up, feeling that, "Oh, there's literary fiction, and beneath that, there's these other things. " He's actually saying that they're all of equal merit, and in many cases, that work in the genres, or work that draws from the genres is more entertaining for readers, since it is our job to entertain people.

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Eddie Rickenbacker

The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.

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Andy Stanley

Fixing things requires change and change always creates conflict. But that is why you are a leader.

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