Nick Diaz (Nickolas Robert "Nick" Diaz) Quotes

Every other fighter has a life on the side. I've never had another job.

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• My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Revolution
  • New
  • New York

• I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Age
  • Industry
  • Ageing

• The fight against terror cannot stop as long as terrorism itself is not stopped, but the path of war must change: it must lead directly to terrorists and not be waged on the backs of three million Palestinians.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Long
  • War
  • Change

• I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Great
  • Think
  • Want

• I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Future
  • Like
  • Present

• I'm an expert on surfing the channels, so I'm always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Always
  • Find
  • Strange

• Insults are the business of the court.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Business
  • Court
  • Insults

• I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Try
  • Go

• At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Family
  • School
  • Age

• Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Reading

• It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Up
  • Animal
  • Bird

• I really love Tom Hardy. He makes really interesting choices.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Interesting
  • Choices
  • Really

• In order to have the next generation of modems, you would need to pour in even more R&D spending. We came to the conclusion that we're going to have a tough time to really see that we are going to succeed in the modems business.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Time
  • Business
  • Succeed

• I loved the writing process. I loved it.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Writing
  • Process
  • Loved

• I'm not good at multi-tasking.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Good

• I think that much of the truth has been withheld from the American people.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• CrossFit is just another thing I've become passionate about. I like to continue to make gains and compete with myself. There's many ways to do that either with adding weight or competing with my own times or my previous records. It's been nothing but a benefit to me, and I love lifting weights.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Like
  • Passionate
  • Benefit

• This was more than just a cow - this was an entire career I was looking at.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Career
  • Looking
  • Cow

• If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Important
  • Funny
  • Die

• My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Up
  • Job
  • Wife

• Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Job
  • Struggle
  • Politics

• Once I've taken photographs, I look at them, and I get into them, and I'm there for the moment - and then that's it. I find little time for reflection.

  

  Pattie Boyd
  • Time
  • Taken
  • Reflection

• Almost everything I do is related to being fat.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Everything
  • Fat
  • Almost

• Every other fighter has a life on the side. I've never had another job.

  

  Nick Diaz
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