Demetrious Johnson Quotes
MMA has the rudest, most negative, dumbest, ignorant fans in the world - but it also has the most passionate fans in the world.
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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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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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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I think that, as a white person stepping into doing any sort of anti-systematic-racism type of work, asking yourself, 'What is your intention?' needs to happen on a consistent basis. Check yourself. Check yourself. Check yourself, like, constantly.
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With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.
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Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm has passed rampaging like a train. There the faint signs are left, coins of time and water, debris ,celestial ash and the irreplaceable rapture of sharing in the labour of soitude in the sand.
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I have lots of fiction in the drawer, but the essays I mostly kick out into the world, ready or not. Fiction incubates differently, I suppose.
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MMA has the rudest, most negative, dumbest, ignorant fans in the world - but it also has the most passionate fans in the world.
