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 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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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
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When I work, I work non-stop and so hard that I barely get time to see anything but the set and home. So whenever I am done with one show, I go into my globetrotter mode and just pick a place and disappear for a while.
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Conservatives of Western North Carolina should send Mark Meadows to Congress. We need his help.
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I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.
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Supporting drama for young people is close to my heart.
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I get very anxious and am scared in crowds and things like 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.
