Chael Sonnen Quotes
I hate downtime. I hate it so much. I like to relax like anybody else, but I hate not doing anything. In my life I'm either going full speed or I'm at a stop.
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I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
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My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
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I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well - you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It's almost as if there's a sense of invocation in performance.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japan's brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.
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We differ on several issues. And this may include settlement, the release of prisoners, the wall closing institutions in Jerusalem.
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There are times I can't even figure myself out.
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Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
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Stereotypes do exist, but we have to walk through them.
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It was hard to admit I had a problem when I still had money, property, prestige. How can I have a problem when I'm driving my new Mercedes, and it's paid for, and I have a house at Malibu?
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Life starts at conception and must be protected from the first moment.
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From time immemorial man has been made in such a way that his vision of the world, so long as it has not been instilled under hypnosis, his motivations and scale of values, his actions and intentions are determined by his personal and group experience of life.
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A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.
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Really being able to harness my mental approach has kind of taken me to the next level, and obviously maturing as a player and a teammate and as a person. Those are things that are necessary to achieve success in this game. There's no other way around it.
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What was unique about me being in City Hall during the Giuliani Administration, I was the only one who wasn't an attorney. I may have been the only one who didn't work in a prosecutor's office. So I took a completely different point of view on how the city should be run. Very close to a business, very close on metrics and numbers.
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While I have always had a good relationship with my father, much of the time it has been a very limited relationship until I was older. So you can't really give him credit or blame for how I turned out.
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When 'Joy Luck Club' came out, I kind of became a role model for the Asian acting community. I started to talk at colleges and emcee charity things. I'm much more connected to my sense of being Asian now.
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I can't imagine being a girl out there on the road. We can throw a hat on and stink. Girls have to do their hair.
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I love Oscar Wilde, still the wittiest writer of anyone, dead or living.
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Music has changed. You can just throw songs out on iTunes song by song; you don't have to do a whole album.
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Order is the law of all intelligible existence.
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It's easy to be critical of ourselves and other women around us. We stand in front of the mirror and only focus on the things we hate about our body and our appearance. But I encourage you to change that attitude the next time you are in front of the mirror.
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I hate downtime. I hate it so much. I like to relax like anybody else, but I hate not doing anything. In my life I'm either going full speed or I'm at a stop.
