Daniel Cormier Quotes
If you're the UFC champion, you're the best in the world at what you do, and I get the opportunity to do that.
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All I did my first year at Vogue was Xerox.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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Spinoza saw... that if a falling stone could reason, it would think, 'I want to fall at the rate of thirty-two feet per second.'
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One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
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I see Professionalism as a spreading disease of the present-day world, a sort of poly-oligarchy by which various groups (subway conductors, social workers, bricklayers) can bring things to a halt if their particular demands are not met. (Meanwhile, the irrelevance of each profession increases, in proportion to its increasing rigidity.) Such lucky groups demand more in each go-round - but meantime, the number who are permanently unemployed grows and grows.
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The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.
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I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine months pregnant now have to work till the bitter end - they don't get to be on TV.
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If you're the UFC champion, you're the best in the world at what you do, and I get the opportunity to do that.
