Georges St-Pierre Quotes
Only way to eliminate the element of surprise is to know yourself and now your adversary.Georges St-Pierre
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If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
Salman Rushdie -
All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility.
Laura Linney -
The best live recordings capture elements of surprise onstage.
M. Ward -
I like to surprise people. I try to take risks.
Carine Roitfeld -
I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.
Sam Mendes -
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
Carl von Clausewitz
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When you have these surprise breakout films that do well, that have good performances in them, it puts a lot of pressure on the Academy to recognize those projects, so it's more of a conversation about what is greenlit.
Mahershala Ali -
Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise.
Nancy Pelosi -
I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.
Sam Claflin -
Television is fantastic because you get to follow a group of characters over time, and their stories can enrich and surprise you. And you get to work with a group of people over time as well, which can be very satisfying with the right group.
Liz Tuccillo -
It may surprise people to learn that one elephant is killed every 15 minutes for its ivory.
Li Bingbing -
My biggest surprise when I became a mom was how I had so much love inside me to give to someone.
Alyssa Milano
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Europe was a big surprise. The U.S. continues to perform and European sales are steadily improving, which could lead to better margins and upward EPS (earnings per share) revisions in 2006.
Larry Miller -
Restrooms at gas stations were an unpleasant and shocking surprise; I had never considered the serious drawbacks of such lazily-cleaned rooms. I was completely unable to ignore the filth, and wasted a burst of power to turn the sink, floors and porcelain toilet into sparkling, clean examples of their kind before using the facility. I felt that was a much less judgmental response than simply blowing the place off the face of the Earth, which was also a distinct temptation, especially when the storekeeper overcharged me for a bottle of cold water.
Rachel Caine -
Girls are so often pitted against each other as enemies or adversaries. We even see it in 'Us' magazine: Who wore it better?
Elizabeth Berkley -
I have often urged my young friends, when faced with an adversary, to "play polo" with him; i.e., not to go at him bald-headed but to ride side by side with him and gradually edge him off your track. Never lose your temper with him. If you are in the right there is no need to, if you are in the wrong you can't afford to.
Robert Baden-Powell -
You might ask yourself why you want to surprise your readers in the first place. A surprise ending is sort of like a surprise party. Probably some people, somewhere, enjoy having friends and trusted colleagues lunge at them in the sudden blinding light of their own living room, but I don't think most of us do.
Jincy Willett -
I'm now painting with all the elan of a Marseillais eating soup, which won't surprise you when I tell you I'm painting large sunflowers. The idea? To decorate the studio, now there's hope of Gauguin living here. I aim at a dozen panels of sunflowers in the room I've set aside for Gauguin.
Vincent Van Gogh
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I became known for surprising audiences. Except now, if I surprise them every time, they expect that.
Sarah Silverman -
American Secretaries of State have typically been more buttoned up than bon vivant, but John Quincy Adams's diplomatic successes - bigger than anything Presidential or legislative that he achieved - still surprise a student of his personality.
Thomas Mallon -
I cannot imagine a more enjoyable place to work than in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where I work.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
It is the definition of the word 'object' which destroys all religions.
Bill Gaede -
Only way to eliminate the element of surprise is to know yourself and now your adversary.
Georges St-Pierre