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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If you get criticized, good - I don't think people get criticized enough. People talk behind your back and they criticize you, but they don't often come up and say it to you.
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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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It was important that I got my own voice out there in the world. I'd used it on other people's films, collaborated, and I thought, 'You know, I can do this myself.' That was more important than anything else.
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In the past, the respect people had for religion meant that ethical practice was maintained through a majority following one religion or another. But this is no longer the case. We must therefore find some other way of establishing basic ethical principles.
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Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.
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But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.
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I just don't feel the Olympic spirit.
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My style is kneeing people in the face.
