Demetrious Johnson Quotes
If I went up there and beat T.J. Dillashaw at 135 pounds, I have no interest whatsoever in staying at 135. People are like, 'Why not?' and I'm like, 'I have no interest in fighting guys who walk around at 160 pounds.'
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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We don't believe in a world of us versus them; we look at the world as all of us together.
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Writing is a sad process, sitting on your ass for many, many hours, alone in a room, smelling like coffee, sadness and bitterness, and watching your youth leave.
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A good autobiography is like a document: a mirror of the age on which people can 'depend.' In a novel, by contrast, it's not the facts that matter, but precisely what you add to the facts.
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It cannot be surprising that, as resistance within Cuba grows, refugees have been using whatever means are available to return and support their countrymen in the continuing struggle for freedom. Where people are denied the right of choice, recourse to such struggle is the only means of achieving their liberties.
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In 'Tintin,' it's like a live-action role. You're living and breathing and making decisions for that character from page 1 to page 120, the whole emotional arc. In an animated movie, it's a committee decision. There are 50 people creating that character. You're responsible for a small part.
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If I went up there and beat T.J. Dillashaw at 135 pounds, I have no interest whatsoever in staying at 135. People are like, 'Why not?' and I'm like, 'I have no interest in fighting guys who walk around at 160 pounds.'
