Jack Newfield quotes
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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 me. I made $15.5 million with Don. How would you like to be exploited and make $15.5 million?”
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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 controversial and tricky parts.”
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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 passionate and too vulnerable ever to be the cool and confident operator his brother was.”
-- Jack NewfieldSource : Jack Newfield (1969). “Robert Kennedy: a memoir”
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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 folder full of statistics.”
-- Jack NewfieldSource : Jack Newfield (2009). “RFK: A Memoir”, p.48, Nation Books
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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 longer so crushing once they are experienced.”
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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 was a spoiled, unintelligent demagogue.”
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“It [his brothers assassination] made Robert Kennedy, a man unprepared for introspection, think for the first time in his life, what he wanted to do, and what he stood for.”
-- Jack NewfieldSource : Jack Newfield (2009). “RFK: A Memoir”, p.29, Nation Books
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Source : "James Caan: What I've Learned". Interview with Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
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“You're blowing it, son! You're blowing it!”
Source : "Angelo Dundee, More Than Just A Good Cornerman". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. February 4, 2012.
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“Even the best thief in the world can't steal time.”
Source : Ally Carter (2011). “Heist Society”, p.92, Hachette UK
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