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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First scenes are super-important to me. I'll spend months and months pacing and climbing the walls trying to come up with the first scene. I drive for hours on the freeway.
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Google Now is one of those products that to many users doesn't seem like a product at all. It is instead the experience one has when you use the Google Search application on your Android or iPhone device (it's consistently a top free app on the iTunes charts). You probably know it as Google search, but it's far, far more than that.
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The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, if you don't give up, you still have a chance. And, when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.
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I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.
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The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
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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.
