Fighting Quotes - Page 17

• To persuade your enemy to (retreat) before the fight is to defeat them even before the battle begins. An enemy made ally is no longer an enemy.

  Sun Tzu

  Enemy, Battle, Allies

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• Deep down, I reckon the sweetest moment will come when it's finally all over. When, at last, I know that I can stop fighting. Of course it'll also be a little sad. The sweetest moments, y'know, always come with just a little sadness.

  Evander Holyfield

  Sadness, Littles, Lasts

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2003.

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• Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.

  Jean Anouilh

  Men, Order, Littles

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• I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.

  Jack Dee

  Hurt, People, Hated

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• Revolution is only truly revolution if it is a continuous struggle-not just an external struggle against an enemy, but an inner struggle, fighting and subduing all negative aspects which hinder or do damage to the course of the revolution. In this light, revolution is ... a mighty symphony of victory over the enemy and over oneself.

  Sukarno

  Struggle, Light, Symphony

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• We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that.

  Jalal Talabani

  Kind, Economic, All Kinds

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• The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Men, People, Imagination

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• I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fighting tools.

  Larry Kramer

  Artist, Men, Tools

  Larry Kramer (1995). “Reports from the Holocaust: The Story of an AIDS Activist”, Burns & Oates

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• I forgot that San Francisco is not an angry city like New York. Gays have gotten what they wanted there over the years, unlike New York, where we had to fight for everything.

  Larry Kramer

  New York, Gay, Years

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• I grew up in New York, and I have that in me, that be-honest-at-all-costs, don't b.s. me attitude. I say, If you've got something to say about me, say it to my face. And then we'll either talk about it or fight about it.

  Tim Robbins

  New York, Honesty, Attitude

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• There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn right; go through any door that you're not supposed to enter. It's the only way to fight your way through to any kind of authentic feeling in a world beset by fakery.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Doors, Two, Feelings

  "This much I know" by Malcolm Mclaren, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2008.

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• From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.

  Susie Orbach

  Children, Views, Parent

  "In messy divorces, somebody has to be grown up and it's not the children" by Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2012.

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• We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

  Greil Marcus

  Music, Song, Mean

  Greil Marcus (2015). “Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition”, p.93, Penguin

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• What a racially segregated system once taught the young black about living with his inferiority is now taught by a benevolent social welfare system. The difference was that in an earlier age a black parent could fight the competing influences.

  Charles A. Murray

  Differences, Parent, Black

  Charles A. Murray (1984). “Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980”, p.188, Basic Books

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• The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.

  Vanessa L. Williams

  People, Wiser You, Figures

  "Vanessa Williams reflects on motherhood, struggle and stardom". Interview with Ashley Strickland, www.cnn.com. May 9, 2012.

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• The hockey I was raised on, the hockey I understand, the hockey that my dad taught me about when I was a boy was intrinsically connected with fighting. I grew up in a house where we revered tough guys.

  Jay Baruchel

  Dad, Hockey, Boys

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.

  Ben Okri

  People, Share

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• I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.

  Vincent Cassel

  Father, Acting, Identity

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. August 26, 2010.

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• To be quite frank and honest with you, it drives me absolutely crazy when my kids fight, the sound of them fighting and not getting along.

  Josie Bissett

  Crazy, Kids, Sound

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• I am comfortable with myself, and this is how I am. I am not really interested in having an acrimonious fight with somebody.

  Joy Behar

  Comfortable

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• I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.

  Adam Brody

  Dream, Phones, Smoking

  Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2009.

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• With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom. At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had barely overcome colonisation. This was the case in practically all of Africa. We supported them.

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Country, Government, Overcoming

  "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

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• Well, for me, the real excitement of doing physical things in films, whether you're talking about a fight scene or a stunt sequence or even a love scene, for that matter, is by necessity it has to be choreographed very much like a dance. That being said, you have to rehearse it over and over again and find a mathematical precision.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Real, Talking, Matter

  "Interview:Benjamin Bratt" by Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. July 20, 2004.

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• I don't go out and pick fights.

  Chester Bennington

  Picks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Organizations like the ACLU fought and won the good fight back in the 1960's, but it's clear that nowadays they've run out of useful things to do since they now spend most of their time defending the scum of the Earth from getting what they rightly deserve.

  Craig Reucassel

  Running, Scum Of The Earth, Organization

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