Demetrious Johnson Quotes
I think 15 to 18 title defenses is something that would be in the record books forever.
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Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'
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My favorite spot is the Maldives. Since I travel so much for work, I like to go to places that are very secluded and quiet.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.
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I did anything that would get me on the air.
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To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism and socialism. All theories are partial; reality is complex.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
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I graduated from the University of Whatever.
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I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.
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I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.
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I think it's disingenuous to believe that being born into a privileged world means you feel like you are having an easy time.
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I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.
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The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.
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I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.
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Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.
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I am an African and I am very proud of that.
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At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.
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You can't write a screenplay if you've been doing a zero-hours contract. Which means that the people who write drama, the people who commission dramas, and the people who direct dramas all come from a small circle of society.
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I always wanted to tell stories. Well, at least, I always came back to the notion of storytelling when the glitz and glamour of being a special effects designer or a fighter pilot or a DEA agent wore off.
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Our first No. 1 was 'Why' and we waited two years to have another one. It felt like forever, and now I feel like I'm celebrating one every few months, which I love
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It is self-evident that the tabula rasa of modernization favors the optimum use of earth-moving equipment in as much as a totally flat datum is regarded as the most economic matrix upon which to predicate the rationalization of construction.
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I think 15 to 18 title defenses is something that would be in the record books forever.
