Georges St-Pierre Quotes

The truth is that I didn't start as a winner. When I was a kid, I was just another reject. I started at the bottom. I think all winners do.

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• This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.

  

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• Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.

  

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• Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be.

  

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• Love can never make you weak, and love is not restricted to opposite sex. I love my parents, I love my animals, and I love my profession.

  

  Randeep Hooda
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• The crowd's a really powerful force on the Internet, and people finally understand how to harness that.

  

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• Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

  

  Florence Nightingale
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• You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.

  

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• The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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• Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.

  

  Om Puri
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• After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last.

  

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• 'Hairspray' was a show I was involved in from the very first reading, and I was 19. And, 'Hairspray', was one of my favorite movies growing up.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
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• I think the attraction of 'American Idol' is about the basic human nature attitude that is, 'We can put you up there. But we can take you down.'

  

  Quincy Jones
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• Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy-of wisdom you can acquire and make your own.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
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• With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
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• There was a three hour differential in performances because the sponsor insisted it be done live for California. You would go on at 8 pm in New York but you would also have to go on at 8 p.m. in California. That meant coming back in to do the show at 11 p.m.

  

  Dick York
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• I still have my bad days when I think I'm not getting everything I deserve. But those pass quickly once my Mother gets on the phone and says, 'listen, we used to eat rocks and walk 80 miles a day to school.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
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• I loved 'Funny Lady' for whatever reason. People say they didn't know I could sing and dance. Well, nobody ever asks me - it's always, 'Punch this guy.'

  

  James Caan
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• Apple has always been, and always will be, a hardware-first company. It produces beautiful devices with elegant designs and humane operating-system software.

  

  Om Malik
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• When the blood of thousands of Americans is shed, the impact lingers. For a generation after the Civil War, the Republican injunction to 'vote as you shot' kept the party dominant for decades; from 1868 to 1912, only one Democrat - Grover Cleveland - won the White House.

  

  Jeff Greenfield
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• I think the music that you make, often it's even better if you identify with other people.

  

  James Blake
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• If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it.

  

  Bill Nye
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• It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

  

  Karl Kraus
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• The fact that I tour religiously in the spring, religiously in the fall, and do 125 shows - you can set your watch to that. And you could have set your watch to that in 2000 or 1999, and you can set your watch to it in 2012.

  

  Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
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• The truth is that I didn't start as a winner. When I was a kid, I was just another reject. I started at the bottom. I think all winners do.

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Kids
  • Winner