Georges St-Pierre Quotes

The only way to ever truly get your confidence and swagger back, I've learned, is to fight for them.

Georges St-Pierre

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• Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Time
  • Age
  • Cheer

• Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • World
  • Effect
  • Buddhism

• I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Small

• I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • History
  • Learning
  • Best

• Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Men
  • Women
  • Change

• What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'

  

  Halle Berry
  • Reason
  • Star
  • Story

• I haven't thought about writing so much as potentially producing and finding my own projects to get into production. I want to be able to buy the rights to a story that I have read or a book that I have read.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Thought

• My first encounter with video games was pretty conventional. I was travelling with my parents - we used to take long cross country trips in the United States every summer - and we went into a restaurant where there happened to be a Pong machine, and I was... a lot of quarters went into that Pong machine, let's just say.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Long
  • Country
  • Pretty

• When I was a child, I loved 'The Marble Faun' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The reason I liked it was because it had a beautiful binding. When you're a kid, you like books because they're pretty to look at, and this one had a white calfskin cover and gold edges. That was enough to make me love it.

  

  Edmund White
  • Love
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful

• If you want to see what stage comedians did to get laffs a century ago, watch the 1910 'Wizard of Oz.' I hope you have a high tolerance for pratfalls.

  

  Kage Baker
  • High
  • Hope
  • Want

• I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Believe
  • Stories

• This book is pointing the way into it for people that see it as daunting or a mystery. Some people just do it, but others need help with the mindset, permission almost to listen to themselves. Understanding how things work is the key.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Work
  • Book

• The family provides the army and navy with the best men and boys that it possesses. And, as we have seen, education and science too are becoming means to the ends sought by the military.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Men
  • Family
  • Science

• When I am dead, no pageant train Shall waste their sorrows at my bier, Nor worthless pomp of homage vain Stain it with hypocritic tear.

  

  Edward Everett

• So many people think that this album is showing a different side of me, but that's not really what it is. I think it's just more me this time because I got to really do it how I wanted to.

  

  Hilary Duff
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• Madame Chairman, I presume this is to sweep Britain clean of socialism

  

  Margaret Thatcher

• If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Jesus
  • Teacher
  • Advice

• I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
  • World
  • Great
  • Remember

• We live in a world where, for whatever reason, the conversations that tend to stick are the ones where 'if it bleeds, it leads.' But we've always been afraid of new technologies in spite of the fact that they've helped improve our lives in countless ways.

  

  Jason Silva
  • World
  • Live

• I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Life
  • Always
  • Teenager

• There's no way to resolve Syria without Iran being involved, given its financing of Assad and the fact that Hezbollah is probably the most effective fighting force that Assad can count on.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Fighting
  • Iran
  • Hezbollah

• If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you have no rules, then you start to build your own rules.

  

  Renzo Piano
  • Discipline
  • Piano
  • Obligation

• The only way to ever truly get your confidence and swagger back, I've learned, is to fight for them.

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Fighting
  • Swagger