Demetrious Johnson Quotes
I love fighting for the UFC. It's an amazing company. I've done a lot of great things, and they've done a lot of great things for my career.
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name, Islam, comes from the word Shalom, which means peace. It's about establishing peace. We greet each other with peace be upon you, which the Jews do in greeting each other.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
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I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
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There are a lot of magazines that are still sort of... that only cater to a certain demographic and only put certain people on their covers.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health in adulthood are almost always present in unresolved childhood challenges.
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What people are going to think of me, I can't really change that.
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I remember when I was 14, I went to race in Hungary, and I went to a concert, and they were playing Bob Marley songs, and I thought, "Wow, this guy is so special." It's Marley every time.
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You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.
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There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs late night on radio. We'd done four years of it before we'd even released a single. It's put us in good stead.
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There is great power in deference. Deference works with everybody.
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I love fighting for the UFC. It's an amazing company. I've done a lot of great things, and they've done a lot of great things for my career.
