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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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
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I love dressing up.
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People come up to me... concerned... that I'll reproduce.
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If you can't eat it, can't sleep under it, can't wear it or make something from it, it's not worth anything.
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Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.
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With every adversity there is a seed of an equivalent or greater benefit for those who are motivated with positive mental attitude to become achievers.
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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.
