David Bautista Quotes
I was a poor kid. I came from nothing. We didn't have any money; a lot of times we didn't have any food, and now, all of a sudden, I'm a superhero in a Marvel movie? Talk about the American dream, man - I'm living it.
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Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I am the guardian of power, not its owner.
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Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
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I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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'Girl, Interrupted' is one of my favorite movies.
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I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
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I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.
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Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home.
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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
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I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or doing some little project.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
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I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
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From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music.
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The maxim that the "best is the cheapest" does not apply to food.
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I was a poor kid. I came from nothing. We didn't have any money; a lot of times we didn't have any food, and now, all of a sudden, I'm a superhero in a Marvel movie? Talk about the American dream, man - I'm living it.
