Demetrious Johnson Quotes
I never cared who I was going to fight because, at the end of the day, it makes no difference.
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A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
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When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.
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Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
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I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.
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Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.' Not me. I start with a plan for the book, break it down into scenes, and I know what scenes need to get written each day. If the scene takes more words than I thought, so be it.
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India is the most competitive manufacturing destination on this planet. If we are able to take advantage of that competitiveness for our domestic markets, this country would be humming with activity; industrial production will grow at 10-11% per year.
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There are pros and cons to everything but especially with what I have chosen. There are cons - the privacy level and everything that comes with it - but I feel there are a lot more pros. And I am doing what I love to do, so I am not complaining at all.
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I try to write in the mornings, as soon as I'm up and caffeinated, and to stay in the chair as long as I can be productive.
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If you want to go beyond that small percentage of people who are already environmentally and scientifically aware, you have to make your work somehow link with a passion, interest, or profession of someone who isn't interested in science or nature.
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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
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My education - my Ph.D. in storytelling - comes from having worked on it, being a lover of film and watching them, from working with some great writers and some very good TV directors and then working with some who weren't.
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Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.
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Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.
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If you develop just one muscle, one skill, make it the ability to focus and just get on with it. It will not only make you desirably employable, but it will make you happy.
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Everybody's fast and strong, but to go out there and throw pass-rush moves or be able to do something different on the run to get them off balance. Anybody can run into somebody, but if you can shake them a little bit at the line, that's what's helped me out as a player.
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
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Sometime I wish the aliens would abduct me and crown me as their leader.
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My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.
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I ain't drop an album since I was 25. I rap way better. I've experienced way more.
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When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be sure the story is not a very good one.
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A lot of DJs don't realize they're here today and gone tomorrow. They're literally taking jets to every show. It's crazy how much money they're spending.
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I never cared who I was going to fight because, at the end of the day, it makes no difference.
