John Engler Quotes
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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We've been blessed with four beautiful children. Michael, he doesn't have much of a problem anymore. He is high functional, probably because of early intervention.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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Men are visual creatures.
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I love connected culture.
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When you or your loved ones escape repression, you often find yourself committed to ensuring that freedom prevails.
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I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.
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When I was in the 12th grade, I got my girlfriend pregnant. I just got out of school, she was a 10th-grader. I'm a teen parent, and I'm at a point where I'm like, 'Man I've got to do something.'
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When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.
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I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.
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My best nutrition tip is to eat things you like that are low in calories and fat. Some of my favorites are chicken, rice, assorted veggies, egg white omelets, turkey sandwiches and protein shakes.
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Don't do a startup unless you're ideologically driven to make it succeed beyond the economic motivation.
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I think songwriting was the biggest way that I found my identity.
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Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.
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The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means. It is only partly got from books; it is our individual way of just seeing and feeling the total push and pressure of the cosmos.
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Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.
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The movie I made with my friends in my hometown based on a dream becomes a stepping stone to 'Spider-Man.' I wish I could say this was an amazing, calculated path but... It's so weird.
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I wasn't a person who hated working. When I was working and training, I loved it. I loved that I had to work that hard. I think it transformed into the gym and then transformed into the octagon. It was a good thing.
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I don't put labels on myself.
