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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I really wanted to give people that tool, that thing, that answer, 'Well, what are you going to do after Katrina? How does New Orleans come back?' And I'm thinking to myself, New Orleans is back. We're the definition of 'back.' We're the definition of 'rebirth,' of 'renaissance.'
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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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It takes no compromise to give people their rights...
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I think the easiest application to help people understand what quorum sensing is and why it's important to study is to tell them that if we could make the bacteria either deaf or mute, we could create new antibiotics.
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Light hearts seldom keep company with heavy coffers.
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Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.
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My style is kneeing people in the face.
