michael jackson, muhammad ali, there's a few people you can faint and as a man be good. >> i was, liked good singing that. what? what did you just say? it was one of those things. >> when you write songs, one of the most amazing things about you as a songwriter is you don't just put ne-yo voice and ne-yo feelings into somebody else's mouth. when i hear you writing for rihanna and beyonce, you know, and i hear songs, you know, how do you make that happen? how do you make that shift from writing for yourself to writing for somebody else? >> to be completely honest, i really don't know. like people ask me how do i write for women so well. >> yeah. that's what i'm saying to you. >> i really don't, to be honest with you. like any song that i've ever written for a woman, i basically have taken feelings that i felt before as a man and just reversed it. >> some of that stuff isn't just you thinking like a woman. some of that stuff a woman has told you before, right? >> oh, yeah. >> that ain't you thinking -- that's somebody saying -- >> actually, "take a bow" is a story about something that ha

i wondered if you can compare his cultural impact with muhammad ali's? >> i think why he got lost in history is because another fighter that fought in the 1960 olympics in rome, he came along, and the tv age was just starting to explode, you might say, and ali really sort of wiped sugar ray robinson from a lot of, a lot of our not memories, but a lot of our visual love, sugar ray robinson should have been on those night talk shows like or the daytime talk shows like phil donahue or whatever you had in the 60s and 70s, but then you had a huge figure, a cultural bullet across our airways, ali, and in a way, sugar ray robinson receded. he moved to l.a., and he started a youth foundation which was just wonderful because in his youth foundation, the kids could do a lot. they could dance. they could play the piano, play bad mitten, paint, but there was no boxing. sugar ray robinson did not want to have a child get into a boxing match and go home and not have a father open the door and tell the son that everything's going to be all right because sugar ray robin

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. >> when you see muhammad ali and what the disease has done to him, do you ever fear of something slowing you down as you age? >> i don't know. there's not much that i'm afraid of, basically, in life. when you think about it, the worst thing that ever happened to me is i lost one of my kids. >> larry: can't top that. >> tell me about it. no, i don't think i'm afraid of anything. >> larry: why you live in las vegas? >> because i lived there for so long, probably 24 years, 25 injuries. i've lived there for so long. >> what do you like about it the most? >> it's just who i am. i know everybody there. it's like my home now. >> larry: isn't it hot in the summer? >> yeah. >> larry: brooklyn kid. >> that's okay. i can handle it. brooklyn kid, we can endure anything. >> larry: okay. by the way, do you think you deserve to be in the boxing hall of fame? >> i don't know. that's not up to me to decide. it's up to people to vote and decide whether i should be in the hall of fame or not. >> larry: do you think you should be? >> i don't know. a lot of my -- i would say -- i think i deserve to be a god

she is so hot that hot tau muhammad alis -- tamales are called anne coulter tau -- tamales. if he was a ride in disneyland i would wait two hours to ride him. and my repulsive sidekick bill shultz. and next to me is none other than bill widdle. if fierce intelligence was a ketchup bottle, i would bang him. 1k3* he is a goon -- and he is a goon, and good to see you, pinch. join me at the 21 club. wait, i forgot, he isn't whated. definitely don't meet me at the 21 club for con grat law tore efforts. wink. >> you wink with your mouth. >> yes, and not with my eyes. can't blink them. it is a serious disorder. i wouldn't make light of it. >> it is more dribble about league civil. it seems msnbc's host thinks he has the answer to what is wrong with american politics. and that answer is more v neck sweaters. actually it is worse. he will appear at the debut event. later this month he was injod by michael bloomberg, joe lieberman, christie todd witman and other incredibly dull people. what is the message of this news fest? don't be so mean you big mean knees. nancy jacobson launched

. >> larry: when you see muhammad ali now, and what the disease has done to him, do you ever fear oflowing you down as you age? >> i don't know. there's not much that i'm afraid of basically in life. think about the worst thing that ever happened to me, i lost one of my kids. >> larry: you can't top that. >> tell me about it. so no, i don't think i'm afraid of anything. >> larry: why do you live in las vegas? >> i've lived there for so long, i've lived there for probably 24 years, 25 years. >> larry: what do you like about it the most? >> it's just who i am. you know what i mean? it's like my home now. >> larry: hot in the summer? >> i'm used to that stuff. >> larry: to a brooklyn kid, that's -- >> that's okay. brooklyn kid, we can handle anything. >> larry: all right. by the way, do you think you deserve to be in a boxing hall of fame? >> i don't know. that's not up to me to decide, you know? it's up to the people that vote and decide whether i should be in the hall of fame or not. >> larry: do you think you should be? >> i don't know. i'll say i deserve to be a guard. but i won't -

>> i would interview muhammad ali, mahatma gandhi, malcolm x and martin luther king and...hter) and mother teresa. (laughter) a couple more people. but those are definitely... those would be first on my list. thank you. >> rose: that's it. (cheers and applause) >> rose: thank you. thank you. (applause) i... this started out first of all... this is a memorable evening at the brooklyn museum because of this man and because of you whatever we started out as, whether it was an interview and conversation about a book, it ended up as a happening and a love-in and much more. (laughter) we that you can. >> thank you. thank you. (cheers and applause) >> rose: coming up tomorrow on charlie rose, javier bardem talking about his new movie called beautiful. >> i am obsessed about portraying people in are going through a very hard circumstance struggling with themselves, most tellingly of all in order to become better and to do less harm to others. that's what inspires me and that's what i look for when i read materials. when i read it's great. and there's a moment where you have to real

it is as famous as muhammad ali, as intuitive of economists who haven't spoken english in 100 years wantll you other things, they tell you that special drawing rights by the i.m.f., they talk about dollars which can be conjured out of nothing on a screen, they too consist of money, the defining comment of this turbulence to me was a letter to the editor of "the times of london" a year ago and the correspondent wre, "now i do understand what quantitative easing is. what i find i don't understand is the meaning of the word money." >> charlie: so gold is another word for money. >> it's historically been the case and as jim says, it's a social convention. you don't need a government to tell you that it's money. it's just widely accepted. it has been throughout history. >> charlie: why is the price of gold rising? >> because what most people think of as money, which is cash or paper money, is falling in value and the fellow we just saw on the monitor has announceded his plans to debase it. >> charlie: so the more that he does that, the higher the price of gold will go? >> just the mention of

muhammad ali thought that since he was a muslim he could talk to khamenei and letting the hostage come home, but he was not able to get their ethos of the algerians were the ones that finally did the intermediary. but even the last three days we get $12 billion to read every message that went back-and-forth left in english had got over there and was in farsi eventually in iran. so we had 3-way negotiations and talked about money and $2.2 billion of gold located in 12 different nations so you can see the complexity of it, and so i finally got the hostage held and we had the $12 billion in the iranian money and the agreement was all of the claims americans had against iran would be fulfilled and the leftover money would be given to iran, which it was to treat stomach has 1979 became 1880, this began to beat heavily into the political here of 90 for which you had been planning to run for the reelection, fighting off primary opponents from the own party. [laughter] >> to of them for awhile. >> was there a point that you realized you are still there and now this is starting to become a prob