Nate Diaz Quotes
He's a good fighter and everything, but he's where he's at because of the push he's getting. I had to put in a lot of work and there ain't no push.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
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In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.
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I've always been attracted to action stuff.
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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.
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Cricket is very simple... you play till you can sustain.
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It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
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I'm a Reuben kinda girl, but I'll take a BLT with avocado in a red hot minute if it comes on ciabatta.
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If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.
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I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.
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I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
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The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.
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The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile.
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When the electricity goes out and everything else goes out -- you don't have the pumps to pump it out either. Because it doesn't work either.
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We must reduce the influence of money in politics, beginning by overturning Citizens United and taking back our system from the millionaires and billionaires who can give unlimited and undisclosed amounts of money to influence our elections.
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The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery.
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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.
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He's a good fighter and everything, but he's where he's at because of the push he's getting. I had to put in a lot of work and there ain't no push.
