Carlson Gracie Quotes

Life is yours, do not let life's problems have other influences on what you believe. See for yourself.

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• I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • Believe
  • America
  • City

• The harder you work, the luckier you get.

  

  Gary Player
  • Work
  • You
  • Harder

• I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Yourself

• You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Home
  • Sunset
  • Sunrise

• I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Model
  • First
  • Texas

• I believe in reincarnation of the soul.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Believe
  • Soul
  • I Believe

• When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • You
  • Film
  • Integrity

• The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Long
  • Happy
  • End

• I love girl power.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Love
  • Power
  • Girl

• I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Trying

• Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Light
  • Fence
  • Phone

• There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn't come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, 'I'm going to make it through all of this.'

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Music
  • Peace
  • Sound

• I was 18 when I did 'The Amanda Show,' and I was 19 when I did 'MadTV,' and I was in way over my head. I was just sort of a goof who could do impressions of WB stars - speaking of the Dawson Van Der Beek era - and it was overwhelming. I don't think I've learned more faster in my life than when I worked on 'MadTV.'

  

  Taran Killam
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Stars

• I'm all about showing people that I'm a little messed up, I have a lot of the same problems you have. By exposing myself and putting myself out there, people can relate to me and my act won't grow stale. I mean, nobody wants to hear a comedian say, 'Life is great.'

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Never
  • More
  • Writer

• I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Singing
  • Learned
  • Records

• Voters memories will fade some.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Memories
  • Will
  • Fade

• Swami Apasthanand is still there, he is very old now, but I had gone to see him and stayed with him for quite some time. But it is a different world, why get into it here.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Time
  • World
  • Different

• We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.

  

  Joe Baca
  • World
  • Power
  • War

• It took me a while to get back to 'The Queen of the Night.' I was angry with it as an idea because I felt like it had sort of ruined my life by taking so much attention away from 'Edinburgh.' So it essentially languished in a drawer until 2004, when I pulled it out, dusted it off, and thought, 'Oh, I actually really like this idea.'

  

  Alexander Chee
  • Life
  • Night
  • Attention

• Sometimes in life, we try to do our very best to help others, and in the process, it brings some anguish to us. But we can't ever let that stop us. We can't ever be stopped from helping others and allowing them to have some sense of happiness and joy in their life.

  

  Jon Huntsman, Sr.
  • Life
  • Help
  • Stop

• No theory of the universe can be satisfactory which does not adequately account for the phenomena of life, especially in that richest form which finds expression in human personality.

  

  Burnett Hillman Streeter
  • Life
  • Universe
  • Theory

• Life is yours, do not let life's problems have other influences on what you believe. See for yourself.

  

  Carlson Gracie
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Problem