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

• When I am in the Scottish Parliament chamber, I often feel the need to sit for the entire debate. It's only courteous to listen to what everyone has to say, although I often find myself desperate to say something but too scared to stand up in case I regret it.

  

  Margo MacDonald
  • Up
  • Regret

• 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

• Objectivity is the subject subjugating the object. That is how you assert yourself. You make yourself the active voice and the object is the passive no-voice.

  

  Emily Levine

• 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're looking for work and have a choice of a job, choose a job that allows the opportunity for some creativity, and for spending time with your family. Even if it means less pay.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • Work
  • Family

• The very first temptation in the history of mankind was the temptation to be discontent...that is exactly what discontentment is - a questioning of the goodness of God.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • History
  • Mankind
  • Temptation

• I think that when a film does its job, it poses questions rather than gives answers. It should act as a frustrating counselor who, at your bidding for advice, says, 'What do you think?' I think that's some of what the culture critic Greg Tate meant by art leaving a 'metaphysical stain.'

  

  Aunjanue Ellis
  • Art
  • Job
  • Culture

• I'm not in the business to make people aware of me, and publicists are very expensive - they're $3,500 a month! I don't want to spend that kind of money so I can get a stupid article in 'Interview' magazine.

  

  Debi Mazar
  • People
  • Money
  • Business

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

  

  Nonito Donaire
  • Warrior
  • Mentality
  • Adopted