Scott Adkins Quotes
I just remember Bruce Lee blowing my mind on the screen, and I thought to myself, Thats what I want to do for a living when Im older. Bruce Lee was so magnetic and charismatic and held the screen so well.
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I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're all about positive energy. There're no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Novels are longer than life.
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It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.
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Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
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We have to tokenize in order to normalize.
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I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep my imagination from running wild, or to stop up the void which seems to be left in my mind from a want of excitement.
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If my parents ever had to ground me, they didn't really know what that would mean, because I was inside most of the time anyway.
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I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!
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Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
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I've been playing this game, fortunately for me, since I was three years old. That's one of the reasons why this game is so special to me.
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Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
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American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.
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Word of mouth is everything.
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I am as omnivorous as it's possible to be. I always say there's nothing I won't eat and nothing I won't wear.
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My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.
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Gay marriage... I'm a traditionalist. I'm older than most people in the audience. I kind of like tradition, and it's always been a man and a woman. I'm thinking, 'I don't quite get it'.
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I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.
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Thirst for victory leads to defeat; not tiring of defeat leads to victory.
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Right now, and in every now-moment, you are either closing or opening. You are either stressfully waiting for something - more money, security, affection - or you are living from your deep heart, opening as the entire moment, and giving what you most deeply desire to give, without waiting.
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When you grow up hard, when you grow up surviving, unfortunately, it helps.
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I just remember Bruce Lee blowing my mind on the screen, and I thought to myself, Thats what I want to do for a living when Im older. Bruce Lee was so magnetic and charismatic and held the screen so well.
