Wanderlei Silva (The Axe Murderer) Quotes
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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.
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In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.
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To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
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People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
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Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for kids to succeed on a world stage.
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I'm still going to sing these songs because trap is a type of music very popular in the streets, and people want to hear it.
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I think when you're looking for people to interview, you want to make it fair and honest. You're not just bringing people on so you can beat them up or, you know, make fools out of them or something.
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Music is like the genius of humankind, universal... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives.
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When you're representing a sport, people are more likely to judge and comment as, unlike other fields, sport permits every viewer to participate to a certain level.
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Now that we have a bit of money, it is nice to get gifts for people. Before I was getting and not really giving.
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So many people are following fashion now. It's become fashion-tainment.
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There's a lot of information that has been in peoples' heads and hasn't gotten onto the Internet. Even as the Web has gotten really big, there's just been this gap. So we made Quora as a general place for people to share knowledge of all kinds.
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People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
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What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.
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People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross.
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And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent godless people: Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.'
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I hate hateful people.
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I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.
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My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.
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Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.
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If we talk about the glass being half empty or half full, I want to know what does the glass look like from underneath the table?
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Your musical soul is like facets of a jewel, and you stick out one facet at a time ... (and) I tend to work real hard on whatever it is I do, to get it up to speed, up to a professional level. I tend to bury myself in one thing for years at a time.
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My style is kneeing people in the face.
