Dwayne Johnson Quotes
For me, training is my meditation, my yoga, hiking, biking all rolled into one. Wake up early in the morning, generally around 4 o'clock, and I'll do my cardio on an empty stomach. Stretch, have a big breakfast, and then I'll go train.
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To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
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Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!
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As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.
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As a kid growing up, I put a lot of pressure on myself.
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I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
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I like to get physical on defense. I like to get up on a guy as much as possible. I actually need to calm down, though.
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Tests that sugar-coat the truth only set up our kids to fail in worse ways down the road.
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I've learned to really love revision over the years and worked hard to build up my craft muscle to make my revisions less and less painful with each book.
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Everything they say about Elvis today is true. He was just one great guy. He wasn't jealous of anyone. I would say Elvis was really someone special when you add it all up.
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I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty.
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An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.
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The rules of the game must be constantly updated to keep up with the expanding technology. Otherwise we overkill the classic climbs and delude ourselves into thinking we are better climbers than the pioneers.
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For me, training is my meditation, my yoga, hiking, biking all rolled into one. Wake up early in the morning, generally around 4 o'clock, and I'll do my cardio on an empty stomach. Stretch, have a big breakfast, and then I'll go train.
