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Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good.

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• I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

  

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• I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.

  

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• Any competent actor could have done what I did.

  

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• My real last name is Galifianakisburg.

  

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• It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.

  

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• Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

  

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• I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.

  

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• If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'

  

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• I'm evangelical.

  

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• The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.

  

  Valerie June
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• Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.

  

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• A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.

  

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• Our relationships are precious, valuable treasures from heaven, and we should handle them carefully, always looking for ways to build bridges to each other's hearts.

  

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• I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

  

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• I've always been into dressing nicely. My dad's really into fashion, also. We'll always go out and buy stuff. He has his own style and I have my own style, but it's a shared thing. Same thing with my grandfather; he was really into his style, so it's just sort of been passed down, I think.

  

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• The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!

  

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• I'm a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace.

  

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• I feel like actors, having spent a lot of time on movie sets, tend to make decent directors, because they've been there, they know what they're doing, they've seen it done right, they've seen it done wrong, and they feel comfortable. There's not a lot of chin-scratching and wondering what your next move is.

  

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• Preachers are not called to be politicians but soul winners.

  

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• I'm a realist about who really reads books and who acts like they read books.

  

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• It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.

  

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• My dad is Jean-Paul Bourelly, a really prestige guitar player in Europe, and he toured with Miles Davis. I was always surrounded by the most prestige kind of musicians from Senegal, Trinidad, Poland, Nigeria, and all around the world.

  

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• Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good.

  

  David Mamet
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