Quotes

"When you lose your father, you’re always looking for one in some way"

Al Pacino

"It’s the happiness of returning to your country and the sadness of seeing that country destroyed. The happiness of seeing your family after so long. And the sadness of worrying that the new government will bring the old guys back to power"

Humayoon Danishyar

"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him"

John Viscount Morley

"What you guys gotta understand is that sometimes you lose. You can’t win them all. Nobody wins them all. You hear that George? You lose. Everybody loses. But you can’t just die!”

Geraldine Liston

"It’s never about the money. It’s always about the money"

Bob Arum

"You can’t condemn a man for wanting peace. If you do, you condemn peace itself"

Muhammad Ali

"Never, ever, blame others for what befalls you, no matter how horrible it might be. Trust you, and only you, to be responsible for your own life"

Lily Nahmias

"I don’t care how nice one is to you; the thing you must always remember is that almost never does he really see you as he sees himself, as he sees his own kind. He may stand with you through thin, but no thick; when the chips are down, you’ll find that as fixed in him as his bone structure is his sometimes subconscious conviction that he’s better than anybody black"

Malcolm X

"My friends and associates are being arrested. It would be the height of cowardice for me to stay away. I would rather be in jail ten years than desert my people now. I have begun the struggle, and I can’t turn back. I have reached the point of no return"

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Every man has a little bit of Taliban in him"

Safia Mohseni

"If I weren’t out here every day battling the white man, I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity"

Malcolm X

"Inspiration does exist, but it has to find you working"

Pablo Picasso

"Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you"

Satchel Paige

"Always go too far. If you go too far we can bring it back if we need to. Don’t go far enough and we’ll always be disappointed"

Nike Run London Team

"No man ever steps into the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man"

Heraclitus

"I started to wonder, Do I deserve this great gift of celebrity that’s been given to me? Where is the acceptance in all of this? How do you live with the feeling that you don’t fit in with other people when you already feel like you don’t fit in with yourself? That’s a tough one to sort out"

Al Pacino

Humayoon Danishyar

"A pandora’s box of urban woes has emerged including overly expensive housing, violent conflict over gentrification, persistently low levels of upward mobility, and outrage over brutal and racially targeted policing and long prison sentences for minor drug crimes. These seemingly disparate problems all stem from a common root: our cities protect insiders and leave outsiders to suffer."

Edward Glaeser & David Cutler

"Nobody don’t want a bum"

Sonny Liston

"I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance… Unless you have a lot of passion about this, you’re not going to survive. You’re going to give it up. So you’ve got to have an idea, or a problem or a wrong that you want to right that you’re passionate about otherwise you’re not going to have the perseverance to stick it through. I think that’s half the battle right there"

Steve Jobs

"Every man has a right to own his mistakes. There is no man alive who did not make a mistake"

Joe Louis

"There are those who write history. There are those who make history. There are those who experience history"

Martin Luther King Jr.

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"Almost everybody is against discrimination in general but, at the same time, almost everybody practices discrimination in his own personal affairs"

Gunnar Myrdal

"I’m not anti-American, and I didn’t come here to condemn America – I want to make that very clear! I came here to tell the truth – and if the truth condemns America, then she stands condemned!"

Malcolm X

Humayoon Danishyar

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"I believe that success is often the result of an accidental circumstance and the opportunity to take advantage of it"

Margaret Rudkin

"If to petrify is success, all one has to do is humour the lazy side of the mind, but if to grow is success, then one must wake up anew every morning and keep awake all day. I saw great businesses become but the ghost of a name because someone thought they could be managed just as they were always managed, and though the management may have been most excellent in its day, its excellence consisted in its alertness to its day, and not in slavish following of its yesterday"

Henry Ford

Jeff Bezos

"We are willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time."

"Only a fool waits until the storm is brewing to repair a leaky roof"

Edward Glaeser & David Cutler

""Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another"

Plato