B.J. Penn Quotes

It's not a certain technique, it's not a skillit's all in your mind, it's how far you want to go

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• Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Music
  • Done

• I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Amount
  • Scholar
  • Nihilism

• Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • Life
  • World
  • Nonsense

• A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Mother
  • Responsibility
  • Best

• By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Time
  • You
  • Know

• These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Support
  • Become
  • Immigrants

• It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.

  

  Adam McKay
  • World
  • Law
  • Laugh

• First and foremost, I look for a great script. Then, the team that I am working with. Only then, we will be able to come up with a good film.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Life
  • Always
  • Air

• The good people look for challenges. When teaching becomes a prestigious profession, then you'll get good people.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • People
  • Good
  • Challenges

• Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Children
  • Today
  • House

• I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Play

• You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Done
  • Know
  • Bread

• I do believe the potential for ConnectU was as big as Facebook's, absolutely.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Believe
  • Potential
  • Facebook

• 'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • World
  • Mind
  • Kids

• I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Time
  • Own
  • Cinema

• Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Me
  • Something
  • Happen

• What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Power
  • History
  • Past

• I get afraid of the dark if I'm in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear... But there is a chance that something... will talk to me from the dark, so I have... to be prepared for that communication, which has happened.

  

  Emil Ferris
  • Great
  • Fear
  • Dark

• The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who, full of morbid influences, are unhappy themselves, and throw the cloud of their troubles like a dark shadow upon others, teach us what eminent duty there is in health.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Health
  • States
  • Morbid

• As far as the press is concerned, they're going to say what they want to say. Probably about 10-15 percent of the time It's accurate.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Time
  • Want
  • Concerned

• I'm a Midwestern girl, born and bred. It's harder for some of us to write about things closer to home. It's not so much a fear of telling the truth but wanting to do it justice.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Home
  • Truth
  • Girl

• I know a lot of people don't have their parents in their life - their mother, their father - but I've got the best two you could ask for, I swear.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Mother

• It's not a certain technique, it's not a skillit's all in your mind, it's how far you want to go

  

  B.J. Penn
  • Mind
  • Want
  • Technique