Georges St-Pierre Quotes

One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers.

Georges St-Pierre

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• Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.

  

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• Cofounder relationships are among the most important in the entire company.

  

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• Prayer is the most important thing that I do.

  

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• I kind of fell backwards into acting. I was studying to be a high school teacher. I look now and I understand completely, or actually barely, how much work it is to be a teacher. It's an incredible amount of work.

  

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• Home has always been one of the most important things. If I don't feel at home in my space, then I feel really unmoored.

  

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• For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point.

  

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• Interviewing Rei Kawakubo in Tokyo and John Galliano in Paris, both for 'Pop' magazine, were huge for me, not just in learning about fashion and writing but about how little desire I had to be a critic/reporter/journalist/commentator so much as a kind of travel diarist.

  

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• The Middle East is the tinder box of the world, and to be able to remove a nuclear threat of any kind out of Iran, that would have been a big deal, very positive step forward.

  

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• In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.

  

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• One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers.

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Important
  • Teacher
  • Parent