Larry Holmes Quotes

I don't believe in trouble. Because I think that trouble is sometimes good, sometimes bad. I've been known to be called trouble, which I think is quite a compliment. But I suppose, thinking about it, that my best and worst trouble has always had something to do with a man.

You don't need to come from poverty to say growing up is tough. You can have everything in the world going for you and still feel the same loneliness and the same problems that a lot of kids have.

Me and Dr. Dre didn't speak for a while because I was going through my problems.

I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are.

I was very laced with drugs myself, but Fred seemed to be even more so than me. That might have had something to do with it. That might have had something to do with nobody wanting to play my records, too, I don't know.

I don't know a single person in life that doesn't have conflict.

I went through a lot of battles in high school.

In 2007, Lindsay Lohan seemed to be on top of the world, a bona fide star who had her pick of acting gigs. But it wasn't long before the veneer cracked, and Lindsay's life began to shatter.

There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.

L. Ron Hubbard [founder of Scientology] was a falling-down drunk who drank himself to death.

This'll blow over!

One problem can stop a whole agreement.

I try to stay out of politics.

People come up to me and talk about the alcoholism in their family.

My crash and burn over drugs and alcohol is very well known; I've never, ever hidden that story. If there are people who would not vote for me because of that history, I understand.

Troubled celebrities are a dime a dozen.

There have been many attacks on my company.

You know, for a normal kid it might be how to ask somebody out on a date or how to deal with the SATs or just how to deal with the bully down the block. And the X-Men have the conflict of Magneto or aliens or what-have-you.

Things aren't always full of sunshine, there has to be friction at times as well.

Having lawyers involved never leads to good things.

I don't want no problems. I don't want to know problems.

Business is good right now, but now my personal life is a disaster.

If I didn't have most of my friends, I wouldn't have most of my problems.

I would certainly say that. I don't want to see riots. I don't want to see problems.

Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I had expected him to speak. 'The reel of silk has run smoothly enough so far; but I always knew there would come a knot and a puzzle: here it is. Now for vexation, and exasperation, and endless trouble!