Demetrious Johnson Quotes
There are things - I want to compete in a big tournament, like an eight-man tournament, like the old fighters. You're going to compete; you're going to fight this one and this one.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.'
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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The thing about the Nobel ceremony is that for a whole week, you get treated like a superstar. You get driven everywhere. You have minders who always make sure you get where you're going. And you always get into the back seat of the limo.
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The gratification of desire is not happiness.
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I started out doing theater when I was really young, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew that this was what I wanted to do.
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I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.
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I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.
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If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.
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I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.
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How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'
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Beef is beef, you know. Beef comes, so Beef is real.
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I personally don't believe in aliens. But, I do believe that there is something out there that is accountable for all these mysterious things that are going on: I think it is a spiritual thing not a material thing.
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We have been born into this land, charged with the historic mission of regenerating the nation.
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We're going to have to make it clear that we don't want to use the kinds of tools that we have. We don't want to engage in a different kind of warfare. But we will defend the citizens of this country.
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It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.
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The reality is that we connect through food, and we have the opportunity to do it three times a day.
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The reality is that al Qaeda has been trying to attack the United States since long before Iraq.
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The reactions music evokes are not feelings, but they are the images, memories of feelings.
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Things that make me laugh range from a wonderful stand-up like Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K. and Chris Rock to my son Gabe, who does great improv work. I also look backwards to the great comedic actors like Jackie Gleason, Paul Lynde and Phil Silvers.
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There are things - I want to compete in a big tournament, like an eight-man tournament, like the old fighters. You're going to compete; you're going to fight this one and this one.
