Kris Holden-Ried Quotes
I was on the national Pentathlon team for a few years, but there was no funding for athletes in Canada. I was in a massive amount of personal debt at the age of 21, so I joined a little modelling and talent agency to get a some work, to do anything so that I didn't have to drop out of school.
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I went through a training camp; I worked extremely hard. I prepared for UFC 200. This was the big one. This one meant everything to me.
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I realized that you didn't have to make self-deprecating remarks or turn yourself into the butt of some unspoken joke. I also discovered that being big didn't deter possible suitors.
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'
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My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
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We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
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I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12.
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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
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The latter 1940s and early '50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.
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God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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I remember one game when I pitched in Yankee Stadium and gave up five runs in the first inning. It would have been easy to quit, but I shut 'em out the rest of the way, and we came back and won the game.
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I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.
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She hath no loyal knight and true, The Lady of Shalott.
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To properly prepare to receive personal revelation, we must repent, ask through prayer, be obedient, search the scriptures, fast, think pure thoughts, and develop a spirit of reverence.
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On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.
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You gotta floss!
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I was on the national Pentathlon team for a few years, but there was no funding for athletes in Canada. I was in a massive amount of personal debt at the age of 21, so I joined a little modelling and talent agency to get a some work, to do anything so that I didn't have to drop out of school.
