Chris Weidman Quotes
When I get in there, everything gets blocked out. I just focus on the person in the cage with me. That's all my brain has room for at the time.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
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Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.
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Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.
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I have repeatedly called for residency programs for teachers, like those you see in the medical profession, to ensure our educators have the training and knowledge to succeed in their classrooms and in their careers.
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People say, 'Oh, to be the daughter of Picasso!' But it's not as extravagant as it seems. He was very special, very vibrant, but he was my father. I didn't have another.
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Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.
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I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.
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I think, often with Australian films, if an Australian film has been given the seal of approval by an offshore festival or an offshore release, then it does mean a lot to a local audience.
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There is nothing more American than acknowledging that even if we don't agree politically, even if we don't agree with the president, even if we don't like each other, all of us have the same rights.
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Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.
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I wish the children could be taught early on that our thinking creates our experience.
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I'm moving forward and getting new fans at every show.
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Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.
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My earliest memories are at the Blue Note here in New York or backstage at different theatres or different clubs, dressing rooms.
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If one person feels the way I felt when I first fell in love with country music, then I'm doing my job.
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It's not just a question of numbers. There will be more women in parliament who are conscious of women's rights ... There will also be women who are not committed to equality.
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The voice of the people, the voice of God.
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In Copenhagen, there's a long-term commitment to creating a well-functioning pedestrian city where all forms of movement - pedestrian, bicycles, cars, public transportation - are accommodated with equal priority.
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When I get in there, everything gets blocked out. I just focus on the person in the cage with me. That's all my brain has room for at the time.
