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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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 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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If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
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I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.
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Things are steadily coming better, but I'm having problems with a few places on the track.
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I think beta males on an evolutionary basis are much more successful than the alpha males are. You don't hear much about us, but there's a lot more of us out there.
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As you get older, you do reflect more. They were great times, but the biggest thing we all had to deal with a lot more disappointment from an engineering point of view, there was not the reliability that there is now.
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To whom to speak when the other no longer is? The place is empty when emptiness occupies all of the place.
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the anxiety arising from the perpetual activity of the death instinct, though never eliminated, is counteracted and kept at bay by the power of the life instinct.
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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.
