In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.


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GENE TUNNEY
I did six years of planning to win the championship from Jack Dempsey.
GENE TUNNEY
One half-conscious thought was burned in my mind: stay on your feet.
GENE TUNNEY
As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, mo...
GENE TUNNEY
The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach pro...
GENE TUNNEY
If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there ...
GENE TUNNEY
Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.
GENE TUNNEY
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
GENE FOWLER
To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.
GENE TUNNEY
Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning you got off to a bad start. If you lose in th...
GENE MAUCH
The worst job I ever had was working nights in the Chrysler Building. I was part of a team of about ...
GENE HACKMAN
I've been hearing from people saying they see me more than they do their city council member.
GENE GREEN
When you are interviewing someone, don't just write down what he says. Ask yourself: Does this g...
GENE WEINGARTEN
Earth is the nest, the cradle, and we'll move out of it.
GENE RODDENBERRY
It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened y...
GENE SIMMONS
The truly longstanding tradition in the church is that some are called to celibacy. Some feel called...
GENE ROBINSON
Some of us shorten our names or our noses or both... We Jews can be extremely neurotic and are incli...
GENE SAKS
My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I thin...
GENE WILDER
I trust if your life is right, the right things will happen at the right time. If the chords are in ...
GENE WILDER
The Pulitzer is a crapshoot. Your piece has to hit a few people the right way at the right moment.
GENE WEINGARTEN
The only jobs kids have are to do well in school, to be charming and polite, and be thankful. That&#...
GENE SIMMONS
No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids - human beings built them, because they're cle...
GENE RODDENBERRY
I remember myself as an asthmatic child, having great difficulties at 7, 8 and 9 years old, falling ...
GENE RODDENBERRY
When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the ma...
GENE KELLY
What I learned from Mel Brooks was audacity - in performance as in life. Maybe you go too far, but t...
GENE WILDER
I hope my fans remember my name is Gene Vincent and not Gene Autry.
GENE VINCENT
You have to bear in mind that Mr. Autry's favorite horse was named Champion. He ain't ever h...
GENE MAUCH
I do not like assassins, or men of low character.
GENE HACKMAN
In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches,...
GENE TUNNEY
I'm not a natural writer like, let's say - I'm not talking about Arthur Miller; that'...
GENE WILDER
If you're the greatest, it's okay to say you're the greatest. My suggestion to everybody...
GENE SIMMONS
Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well ...
GENE SIMMONS
It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on screen. I think of myself, and feel like I&#...
GENE HACKMAN
But by virtue of our baptism, Peter Akinola and I are brothers in Christ and one day we are going to...
GENE ROBINSON
What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
GENE FOWLER
The thing I always liked best about touring abroad was constantly running into different people, dif...
GENE PITNEY
Instead of saying we need to outlaw certain types of weapons, we need to find better ways to enforce...
GENE GREEN