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I make more money with Don King stealing from me than 100 percent from other promoters.
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He knows which fighters to steal, how to exploit anyone's vice, vanity or insecurity and make a profit for himself.
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I don't fight for nobody else because Don King has made me money. Yet I hear people saying Don King is exploiting…
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Comprehensive, judicious, evenhanded, original. An Unfinished Life has the sober judgment and nuanced accuracy that make it ring true in all the…
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His enemies said he [Robert Kennedy] was consumed with selfish ambition, a ruthless opportunist exploiting his brother's legend. But he was too…
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Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila…
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All his life he [Robert Kennedy] had been schooled that nothing was worse than to finish second. But crushing fears are no…
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But they were as different as fire and ice. Robert Kennedy thought Eugene McCarthy was pompous, petty, and venal. McCarthy thought Kennedy…
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I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.
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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
— Thomas Browne
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Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the…
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No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Mental bearing (calmness), not skill, is the sign of a matured samurai. A Samurai therefore should neither be pompous nor arrogant.
— Tsukahara Bokuden
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Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.
— William Zinsser
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