Nonito Donaire Quotes

Growing up, I kind of adopted that mentality, going all out, being a warrior.

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• The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Important
  • Leader
  • Direction

• I don't run behind authority.

  

  Naguib Sawiris
  • Authority
  • Run
  • Behind

• I do a lot of mixed martial arts - it's like unlimited fighting. I do Brazilian jujutsu, beach volleyball. I don't like my routine to get stale, so I also lift kettle bells and push cars.

  

  Victor Webster
  • Fighting
  • Beach
  • Routine

• The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Different
  • Story
  • Opera

• Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Women
  • Me
  • Old

• I'm surrounded by friends and family who are not that impressed by celebrity. They don't have any problem telling me I'm acting like an idiot or I'm not that funny.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Funny

• Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

  

  Wendell Phillips

• We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

  

  David Hyde Pierce
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Control

• I was born in America but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe. Many people in my neighborhood hardly bothered to learn English.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • People
  • Friends
  • America

• I didn't have big movie offers, or any big agents wanting to work with me. I had to go grassroots, start at the bottom and go on 150 auditions before someone finally gave me a shot.

  

  Donnie Wahlberg
  • Work
  • Movie

• I am expected to be glamorous and untouchable. Like success would make me spoiled and entitled. However, I am just a normal dog-owning, horse-riding, meat-eating Oklahoman.

  

  Kristin Cast
  • Success
  • Dog
  • Horse

• George W. had a plan. He arranged to join the Air National Guard in Texas, which meant he would not be sent to Vietnam.

  

  Peter Jennings
  • Air
  • Texas

• I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.

  

  Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • Rock

• I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift.

  

  Allyson Felix
  • Faith
  • Running
  • Blessed

• I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.

  

  Cory Monteith
  • Why
  • Community
  • Friend

• The invention of typography confirmed and extended the new visual stress of applied knowledge, providing the first uniformly repeatable 'commodity,' the first assembly-line, and the first mass-production. (p. 142)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Knowledge
  • Stress

• If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt.

  

  Francis Picabia

• Crime novels have a clear beginning, middle, and end: a mystery, its investigation, and its resolution. The reader expects events to play out logically and efficiently, and these expectations force the writer to spend a good deal of time working on macrostructure rather than prettifying individual sentences.

  

  Jesse Kellerman
  • Time
  • Good
  • Beginning

• I don't walk around big headed. I'm not a superstar.

  

  DMX

• Every man that ever lived craved perfect happiness, the detective poignantly reflected. But how can we have it when we know we’re going to die? Each joy was clouded by the knowledge it would end. And so nature had implanted in us a desire for something unattainable? No. It couldn’t be. It makes no sense. Every other striving implanted by nature had a corresponding object that wasn’t a phantom. Why this exception? the detective reasoned. It was nature making hunger when there wasn’t any food. We continue. We go on. Thus death proved life.

  

  William Peter Blatty
  • Men
  • Perfect
  • Desire

• My dad and I used to watch 'Ninja Warrior' all the time back when it was in Japan. I would always say, 'I could do that,' kind of joking, but obviously kind of serious.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Time
  • Dad
  • Serious

• I thought it would be more of a challenge than it was to cater for every size, but as you're aware of a woman's curves - they're kind of like a race track - you can create something glamorous and beautiful.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • Beautiful
  • Challenge

• I would do violence for one glimpse of your naked breasts. Bleed for one taste of your nipple on my tongue.

  

  Elizabeth Hoyt
  • Violence
  • Winter
  • Naked

• Growing up, I kind of adopted that mentality, going all out, being a warrior.

  

  Nonito Donaire
  • Warrior
  • Mentality
  • Adopted