Demetrious Johnson Quotes
You look into an encyclopedia and ask what fighter can do any type of martial art at a high-caliber level, my picture will show up.
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I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.
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I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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You can't say yes to every role, and you have to make people miss you. I don't want people to get sick of me.
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You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
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It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.
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Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
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EmTech Asia brings together some of the brightest minds in technology and computer security.
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If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.
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Isolation is a dream killer.
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I really can't believe what a state the Pyramids are in. I thought they had flat rendered sides, but when you get up close, you see how they are just giant boulders balanced on top of each other, like a massive game of Jenga that has got out of hand.
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'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.
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The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.
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Being a biochemist, I did a lot of tissue-culture research prior to working at NASA and when I first started working there.
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Every year, our white intruders become more greedy, exacting, oppressive, and overbearing. Every year, contentions spring up between them and our people, and when blood is shed, we have to make atonement, whether right or wrong, at the cost of the lives of our greatest chiefs and the yielding up of large tracts of our lands.
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It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.
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Our mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of course, but they also leave treasured lessons that can guide us along our journeys even when they are no longer with us.
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You look into an encyclopedia and ask what fighter can do any type of martial art at a high-caliber level, my picture will show up.
