Demetrious Johnson Quotes
When I got into this sport, I thought all I had to do was beat people and finish fights, and everything else would take care of itself.
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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You have to believe that people don't want what you think they're going to like, you know? They want what you like. Once you start doing that, you actually start connecting with people.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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The challenge that so many people have is not knowing how to take that first step of reaching out to another person for help.
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If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.
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I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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We know there can be no justice in the Middle East without a Palestinian state. But there can be no security in the Middle East without a Palestinian state.
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The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.
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Something once lost will never return
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The predominant quality of successful people is optimism.... Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.
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Go empower yourself. You need confidence because the one thing that bullying does is it belittles you, and it takes away your confidence, and nobody deserves that.
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When I got into this sport, I thought all I had to do was beat people and finish fights, and everything else would take care of itself.
