Carlos Gracie, Jr. (Carlos "Carlinhos" Gracie Jr.) Quotes
I’ ve always been a fan of the basics. After you have a good solid foundation of Jiu-Jitsu, the rest comes by instinct. You create, invent. The rest is easy. The difficult part is the beginning.
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You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,' you're going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don't matter. Sue me - I like the song. To dance to it is another matter.
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In 'Clockwork Orange,' you're there with your eyes, watching all those things, your brain goes off, ahh, exposes you to so many things, and at the end of the day, it's just like a roller coaster. Why do you jump in a roller coaster? You want a thrill.
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I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.
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In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
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I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.
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I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it, not just because it's the wrong side of the creator-consumer barrier for me. I'm a visual writer. I think in moving 3D images and write down what I observe.
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I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.
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There is a racist attack against Muslims and Arabs, Algerians, Moroccans, and Tunisians in France.
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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
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Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.
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For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.
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I love 'First Wives Club' and 'Death Becomes Her' and movies about women like that.
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I think there's many a slaveholder'll get to Heaven. They don't know better. They acts up to the light they have.
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So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.
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I think a woman feels ugly when she's got the wrong man at her side.
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For Black Label Special Opps, adversity is what you thrive on. General Patton is a huge fan favorite in Black Label.
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I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.
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To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.
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The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I realized I really found the perfect charity. It sponsors schools and educational initiatives all over the planet.
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It's very easy to lose language - it can be shut off in a second.
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I’ ve always been a fan of the basics. After you have a good solid foundation of Jiu-Jitsu, the rest comes by instinct. You create, invent. The rest is easy. The difficult part is the beginning.
