Michael Nutter Quotes
I think that when we have a better educated society, when there is less violence in our cities, when people get back into the workforce and have the opportunity to take care of themselves and their families - that for me really is the kind of success and the kind of America that I think most of us still want, we aspire to.
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Reach, and all that other stuff, doesn't play as big a part in MMA as it does in boxing. Guys don't really fight with their length all that much, because they have to worry about the takedown or kicks. They have to worry about so many other things that they can't just fight real tall.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book 'Crush It!'? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it would undermine the personal brand I've built.
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My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.
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I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
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If you try to follow everyone else's mold, you'll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.
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When you're having conversations about actors, you realize these same conversations have happened about you. If you want to make a film for $5m, then you cast A, B and C, but if you want $20m, you won't be able to cast them, you need X, Y and Z.
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I was tortured, and probably half of it was deserved, but I was bullied - so much so that there were days when I was like, 'I can't go to school today.' I was too scared.
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I was little impressed with this rough and ready way of persuading people to renew their contracts and decided that I was now quite free of any obligations.
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I did 'Malice,' 'Sommersby,' and 'Sleepless in Seattle,' and they're as disparate characters as I've ever played. But somehow, there was that thing - they were all second male leads, so they all didn't get the girl in some weird way.
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People confuse being world No. 1 with winning a Major championship.
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It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual.
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My philosophy is whatever you do, you've got to invest in yourself. If you don't, there are a lot of people out there who will get the job because they're more prepared than you.
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As an artist, you tend to identify your sphere of influence and try to employ that as best you can to hopefully be useful.
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Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.
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I think that when we have a better educated society, when there is less violence in our cities, when people get back into the workforce and have the opportunity to take care of themselves and their families - that for me really is the kind of success and the kind of America that I think most of us still want, we aspire to.
