Demetrious Johnson Quotes
For every champion, after you win the belt, you want to defend it as many times as possible.
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A spiritual partnership is between people who promise themselves to use all of their experiences to grow spiritually. They use their emotions to show them how to create constructive and healthy and joyful consequences instead of destructive and unhealthy and painful consequences.
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The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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I love to sing random stuff. That's exciting for me.
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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I'm a physical comedian first - and I'm a woman before that.
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'Whiplash' scared me. I feel you should only do projects that scare you to some degree. I get motivated by those sorts of feelings.
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What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else – when you want to be another person.
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VaynerMedia filters the world how humans interact. This is how people are going to make buying decisions.
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Google appears to be the worst of the major search engines from a privacy point of view; Ask.com, with AskEraser turned on, is among the best.
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There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.
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Political hypocrisy and racism make me hot under the collar.
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I love the idea of the 'vignette,' which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right?
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You can't be a real man if you don't look out for your kids. They need you.
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To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.
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There are many people who could be Olympic champions. All-Americans who have never tried. I'd estimate more than 5 million people could have beaten me in the pole vault the years I won it... at least 5 million. Men that were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground trying to get over the bar.
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My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.
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When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game.
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For every champion, after you win the belt, you want to defend it as many times as possible.
