#to

If you look at my career, towards the end you will see I was fighting like once a year. I was not part of the Don King top heavyweights, so I was kind of kept out. His guys were getting three to four fights a year and I could only get one. ↗

— Gerry Cooney

#could #don king #end #fighting #fights

You take that walk from the dressing room to the ring and that's when the real man comes out. Then you climb up those four stairs and into the ring. Then finally, you can't wait for the bell to ring. ↗

— Gerry Cooney

#climb #comes #dressing #dressing room #finally

It's like this - these five members have been influenced of course by other groups, because that's where this generation's groups came from - an environment like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and The Who. People like that. ↗

— Alice Cooper

#because #been #came #course #environment

My parents have been together since 1963, so that's something. ↗

— Bradley Cooper

#parents #since #something #together

I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#creator #gifted #i #me #people

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality. ↗

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#controlling #denying #equality #full #her

If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way. ↗

— Anderson Cooper

#also #cuts #knows #likely #likes

Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#convinces #exhortations #impart #nothing #sermons

My mother emails me stuff about when she finds a paparazzi photo and they're like, his hair is out of control. ↗

— Bradley Cooper

#control #emails #finds #hair #his

Anyone can take a picture of poverty; it’s easy to focus on the dirt and hurt of the poor. It’s much harder—and much more needful—to pry under that dirt and reveal the beauty and dignity of people that, but for their birth into a place and circumstance different from our own, are just like ourselves. I want my images to tell the story of those people and to move us beyond pity to justice and mercy. ↗

— David duChemin

#photography #photography-quotes #picture #poverty #beauty