Dwayne Johnson Quotes
My grandfather was one of the very, very first, if not the first, Samoan wrestlers to become known on a worldwide basis.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it's easy to thwart.
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The possibility that a provincial town could win the League completely bucks the trend.
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Religious beliefs have played a vital role in forming America's character as well as my own. I was raised as a Lutheran, and I believe in God and consider my faith and involvement with organized religion to be an important part of who I am.
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UFC is a moneymaking machine. The most important thing for this organization is a brand and its marketing. They have a couple of good fighters, and there are also some very good champions, but they are trying to keep everyone at the same level. The most important thing for them is the promotion, not the fighters.
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When I was living in the projects, I had a mop stick for my horse. I wanted to be Gene Autry or Roy Rogers, so I would ride my mop through the projects.
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I think it is important for readers to know that it is possible to bring intellectualism and idealism to the White House and still be political enough to advance an agenda.
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Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today.
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The Victorian language of flowers began with the publication of 'Le Language des Fleurs,' written by Charlotte de Latour and printed in Paris in 1819. To create the book - which was a list of flowers and their meanings - de Latour gathered references to flower symbolism throughout poetry, ancient mythology, and even medicine.
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I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.
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Fat Joe ain't out here trying to battle-rap everybody in the world. That's not what I'm about.
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Oh this is not that sweet loveOwn companion to the dove ;But a wild and wandering thing,Varying as the lights that flingRadiance o'er his peacock's wing.I do weep, that Love should beEver linked with Vanity.
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There are hardly any truths upon which we always remain agreed, and still fewer objects of pleasure which we do not change every hour, I do not know whether there is a means of giving fixed rules for adapting discourse to the inconstancy of our caprices.
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Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
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I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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'The Darkest Minds' came from a period in my life where I felt my most powerless, when I was a teenager.
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I can't write about my greatest mistakes because I've slept with most of them.
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When you have a lot of talent, you don't necessarily have to be gracious and consider everyone.
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I hung out with Merle Haggard on his bus, which sort of freaks me out. It was him and his wife. We played with Merle in Oklahoma City. I'm from Arizona, and we talked about Arizona, and he remembered playing for two dollars a day down there at a bar.
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As dawn leaks into the sky it edits out the stars like excess punctuation marks, deleting asterisks and periods, commas, and semi-colons, leaving only unhinged thoughts rotating and pivoting, and unsecured words.
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Comey really spent an enormous amount of energy in the period in which both he and Trump were in office trying to protect the FBI from political interference from the White House.
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Countless times, I remember watching him toss ideas—pretty far-out ideas—into the air, just to see how they played. And if they didn’t play well, he would move on.
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My grandfather was one of the very, very first, if not the first, Samoan wrestlers to become known on a worldwide basis.
