Daniel Cormier Quotes
When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him.
 
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	I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.   
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	I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.   
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	Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.   
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	For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.   
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	I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.   
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	I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'   
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	Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.   
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	Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.   
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	I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.   
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	It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?   
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	My mother is an ordained minister. I'm a Muslim. She didn't do back flips when I called her to tell her I converted 17 years ago. But I tell you now, you put things to the side, and I'm able to see her, and she's able to see me. We love each other. The love has grown.   
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	I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped.   
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	Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.   
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	You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.   
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	The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.   
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	It's fun to play dress up for work, but when you have those off-days, it's nice to just be low-key.   
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	There's an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.   
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	The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.   
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	Songwriting is a great release. It helps me work through things.   
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	The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.   
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	The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny "arf" - the sound of a lap dog.   
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	I don't like people probing into my life, so I reveal as little as possible or lie about it as much as need be so as to give them something to write about.   
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	Maybe this is crazy, but I think the right to own a gun is trumped by the right not to be shot by one.   
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	When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					