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"New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something."
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"Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today."

"Sure, there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious."

"The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register."

"It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment."

"I think I've become one of the best finishers in boxing; if I hurt a guy, I normally take him out."

"When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves."

"The real problem today is the ineffective and inconsistent oversight of professional boxing, which has led to continuing scandals, controversies, unethical practices, and unnecessary injuries and deaths in the sport."
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"I think when you get to the point where you don't need to be in love, then you could be in love. You have to just be OK with yourself-and that's a long process."

"I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about."

"Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?"

"People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that."

"The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back."

"Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30."

"The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane hit. It was not only the murder, but the perpetual image of the horror that permeated into people's consciousness."

"I think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess. You don't actually consummate it, but you get to pretend, imagine what it would be like."
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