Carlos Condit Quotes
I think about a storm rolling in with black clouds and I visualize the lightning and try to draw energy from that, and I think: all I have to do is beat this man until he stops moving, then I can go home to my son.
Quotes to Explore
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
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History is not hatred.
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I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.
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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
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If you cry over a guy, then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered.
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We are filmmakers, and we are specifically trying to entertain people.
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Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You're vulnerable if you're on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you're not injured, face 'em off, be authoritarian with it, and look 'em in the eye.
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My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.
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Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.
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My first joke was about a company called Five Star Parking that was all over Philadelphia: 'Who's reviewing parking lots?'
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You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.
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Everything I've experienced, things that my friends have experienced and we talk about, things that are on the news - all aspects of life are in my message.
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One must always practice slowly. If you learn something slowly, you forget it slowly.
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I decided to praise my son not when he succeeded at things he was already good at, but when he persevered with things that he found difficult. I stressed to him that by struggling, your brain grows. Between the deep body of research on the field of learning mindsets and this personal experience with my son, I am more convinced than ever that mindsets toward learning could matter more than anything else we teach.
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If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves and of threatening ourselves with death Perhaps the world can teach us as when everything seems dead but later proves to be alive.
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Talking to myself in my journal qualified as talking to someone my own age.
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I think about a storm rolling in with black clouds and I visualize the lightning and try to draw energy from that, and I think: all I have to do is beat this man until he stops moving, then I can go home to my son.
