Scott Adkins Quotes
When I was ten years old, my dad and brother did JUDO so I went along because I felt like I was missing out. They eventually gave up and I continued, then moved into Tae Kwon Do, kickboxing and various other martial arts. I did lots of different things, but mostly things like Wushu, Jeet Kune Do, Krav Maga and stuff like that.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
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I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
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Of course, a movie is in constant flux.
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I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.
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Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
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I couldn't do what I do day-in and day-out if I didn't love the game.
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George Reeves was really Superman in my eyes. For him to come on the set and be there was a treat for me.
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We played at a festival in Mexico City, at the same time as another famous artist, and I reckon we had 55,000 people watching New Order; the other had 7,000. I think from that I've discovered the secret of success in the music industry: don't do any promotion.
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In high school, it was very fashionable to be disdainful of the bourgeois suburbs, but I secretly liked them.
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I've always worked on all different types of music, some with specific project goals and deadlines and some not. Sometimes I would write a piece of music that is almost like a film score or weird electro pieces, wherever the muse took me, and I still do that.
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I'm not scared. I always go forward, trying to create space and make my way toward the goal.
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Slovakia's joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.
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The only think I like better than talking about Food is eating.
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I tend to work quite a lot during the weekends. My weekend can often be about two hours on Sunday.
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The power of the American people, when we rise up and stand for liberty, knows no bounds.
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When I was ten years old, my dad and brother did JUDO so I went along because I felt like I was missing out. They eventually gave up and I continued, then moved into Tae Kwon Do, kickboxing and various other martial arts. I did lots of different things, but mostly things like Wushu, Jeet Kune Do, Krav Maga and stuff like that.
