Miesha Tate Quotes

I think we've broken a lot of barriers and kind of shattered our "glass ceiling" that was there for women. There are so many great fighters and we've proved a lot of people wrong. A lot of the times our fights are the best fights on the card.

Miesha Tate

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• We continue to be bullish on China.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • China
  • Continue
  • Bullish

• I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Time
  • School
  • Pretty

• Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • City
  • Proud
  • Paris

• I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Wife
  • Child
  • Lucky

• We're just a real dirty band. We're raw, and we're rough. None of us are top-scale, top-line musicians. But I tell you what, you get your top-line musicians and see if they can entertain like us.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Real
  • Band
  • See

• 'Foote,' (said lord Sandwich) 'I have often wondered what catastrophe would bring you to your end; but I think, that you must either die of the p-x, or the halter.' 'My lord,' (replied Foote instantaneously) 'that will depend upon one of two contingencies; - whether I embrace your lordship's mistress, or your lordship's principles.'

  

  Samuel Foote
  • Die

• It is a maxim deeply ingrafted in that dark system, that no character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • Character
  • Dark

• Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb.

  

  Brian Setzer Stray Cats
  • Dumb

• No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.

  

  Liberty Hyde Bailey
  • World
  • Earth

• Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.

  

  Jessica Livingston
  • English

• The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.

  

  Donna Tartt
  • Work
  • Reading
  • Style

• Traveloka is the clear online travel leader in Indonesia and is expanding aggressively throughout Southeast Asia.

  

  Dara Khosrowshahi
  • Travel

• Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.

  

  Jacob K. Javits
  • Experience
  • Death

• I like to collect aprons from different places I go. I first started when I was in Italy because I thought that would be really appropriate. I got a hand-stitched Italian apron from this woman in Sicily who put my name on it, and it said, 'Sicily, Italy.' So now I get one from everywhere I go.

  

  Britt Robertson
  • Different
  • Hand
  • Italian

• My mother was in Scientology my whole life. Most people don't know that we were raised in it - I didn't decide to get into it. I was brought into it by my mom.

  

  Leah Remini
  • People
  • Life
  • Mother

• I didn't know a single female photographer who covered conflict who even had a boyfriend, much less a husband or a baby.

  

  Lynsey Addario
  • Single
  • Husband
  • Baby

• I tend to not want to put labels or categories on the music, only because people come with preconceived ideas about what they're going to hear, or won't come for this reason.

  

  Chuck Mangione
  • People
  • Music

• If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools.

  

  Billy Higgins
  • Question

• No time you spend writing will be wasted - even if you write something that's bad.

  

  Elif Batuman
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Bad

• That's why I'm going to kill you and see how Haruhi Suzumiya reacts.

  

  Nagaru Tanigawa
  • Why

• I think midlife crisis is just a point where people's careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their personal relationships.

  

  Bill Murray
  • People

• I was heartbroken at the end of that, because I thought that was going to be it for me. Somehow I had worked my way into this movie and it had exposed me to people and I had a chance to be an actor, which I loved, but I didn't think it was ever going to happen again.

  

  Jason Schwartzman
  • People
  • Movie

• A lot of people really didn't expect for me to have a record with Kendrick, but I proved them wrong. It's not easy to get Kendrick on a record, so it was a huge deal for me to have him featured on the song.

  

  Dimitri Leslie Roger
  • People
  • Song

• I think we've broken a lot of barriers and kind of shattered our "glass ceiling" that was there for women. There are so many great fighters and we've proved a lot of people wrong. A lot of the times our fights are the best fights on the card.

  

  Miesha Tate
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Barriers