Demetrious Johnson Quotes
I know why the UFC runs the business the way they do. I know why Conor McGregor makes a base pay of $3 million. But I think I justify my pay with my skill set, and I've always been willing to promote my brand.
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When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.
Patrick Marber
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When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
Sam Brownback
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
Zaha Hadid
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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
Candace Bushnell
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I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.
Rand Paul
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
Yuna
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
Jackie Cooper
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I resent ever being stereotyped.
Laura Dern
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
Edmund Morgan
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I do everything in a straightforward manner.
Harmon Killebrew
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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Oscar Wilde
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The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
Wayne Rooney
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
Katee Sackhoff
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I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
W. G. Sebald
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I'm very happy with the choices I've been making and the people I've been working with. I hope I can continue along this path.
Haley Bennett
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I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.
Camille Paglia
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Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
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I grew up in a deeply Catholic home. Our parents always encouraged us to march to our own drums, though, so some of us are still Catholic and some are not. That's always going to be a part of me though; little bits of it trickle into my work. Whether it's an embrace or a rejection, I'm not always sure, but I can't avoid it.
David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
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We're not trying to harass the average American. We need to convert this now to a risk-based system, with TSA concentrating and focusing on intelligence, on security, setting up again the parameters of which we do this.
John Mica
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The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want you in their movie.
Kevin Bacon
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I'm in the entertainment business, where you're only as good as your last show.
Matthew Weiner
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Shane said, "Don't worry. I'll protect you." Claire hit him in the shoulder. "I don't need you to protect me." "Then why am I going first?" "So you can take the first punch while I throw the second?" "So I'm bait? Ouch. You've been in Morganville way too long, girl.
Rachel Caine
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I know why the UFC runs the business the way they do. I know why Conor McGregor makes a base pay of $3 million. But I think I justify my pay with my skill set, and I've always been willing to promote my brand.
Demetrious Johnson