Demetrious Johnson Quotes

My mind can't always be on fighting.

Demetrious Johnson

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• I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Home
  • Energy
  • New York

• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• Speech happens to not be his language.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Language
  • Happens
  • Speech

• I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

  

  Ice T
  • Up
  • Men
  • Think

• Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • America
  • Think

• He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Job
  • Thought
  • Year

• What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Bad
  • Food
  • Dinner

• I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Deep
  • Almost
  • Zone

• If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • World
  • Chinese
  • Tomorrow

• I'm not the type of guy to go so deep with the concept songs, but there's deep thought in everything. Maybe it's not just a repetitive hook telling you what the song is about - you have to use your brain a little bit.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Guy
  • Song
  • Brain

• I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Quality
  • Clear
  • Website

• In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Character
  • Army
  • United States

• I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'

  

  Gary Ross
  • Movie
  • Doing
  • Entertainment

• I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Eye
  • End
  • Short

• The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English, they get the same rhythm.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Thinking
  • English
  • Language

• Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Love
  • Crime
  • For Him

• A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Good
  • Great
  • Player

• Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Why
  • Risk
  • Thought

• Your body has space within you that cannot die.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Die
  • Space
  • Body

• You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Happy
  • Campers

• If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing.

  

  Peabo Bryson

• The effort of trying to turn grief into regret, to live entirely on past nourishment, even to keep the sharper parts of nostalgia credible (he found himself beginning to doubt and struggle with the intricacies of the smaller memories), and, most of all, the fearful absence of anything that could begin to take their place, had worn him down.

  

  Elizabeth Jane Howard
  • Memories
  • Regret
  • Nostalgia

• I guess my natural inclination is to finish what I started. We have a Conservative government in Nova Scotia. What I want to see is a Conservative government in Ottawa.

  

  Peter MacKay

• My mind can't always be on fighting.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Mind
  • Fighting