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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.
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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.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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I resent ever being stereotyped.
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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I do everything in a straightforward manner.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I just want people that like my music to like me.
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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
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In business, I think the most important thing is to position yourself for long-term and not be too impatient, which I am by nature, and I have to control myself.
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Summer is always best through a window.
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The big things in the average person's life are the romances that they have - and then the destruction and loss of them. Parents, siblings, children, the death of parents, family tension... these are monumental things. They struck me as being interesting to write about. I didn't have a very exotic life, but all this stuff happened to me.
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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.
