Georges St-Pierre Quotes
When great depths of unrelenting sorrow are punctuated by great peaks of joy and liberation, the result is delicious.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
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Intentions count in your actions.
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I've never hidden my faith, but there are only a couple of issues I would die for. There are a few others I would dig my heels in on, and I've told my caucus that what they see is what they get.
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'Milton was right…' The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words 'Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven.' There is always something they insist on keeping even at the price of misery…
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Nothing is ever what you want it to be. The harder you grab for it, the more deeply it cuts. And it mocks you for being foolish enough to reach for it at all. You come to fear touching anything at all, because you know that if you do, it will become terrible.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Men out of fear will cling to the thing they most fear.
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To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.
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Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
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I don't like talking unnecessarily, and my communication skills are zilch. I just can't converse with people. Maybe it's because of my stuttering or stammering, but I'm not confident of talking with people. I only talk to very close friends and family.
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It's so difficult writing about living people.
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Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.
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I believe in the goodness of man, and I believe we're all connected and that connection is through God. We have our differences. But if we will recognize that we like each other, that we are more common than uncommon, we will work toward what needs to be done to reconcile that.
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I started practicing Yoga at about 18. I had a friend who was doing it and was incredibly disciplined and meditated all the time.
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I think escapism is very important, certainly in my life. I love nothing more than escaping into the world of a film or a novel. To be involved in creating that for other people is a privilege.
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I am struck by how quickly I am prone to judgmentalism.
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My kids are from different countries, but there's an understanding, you don't have to like a country just because you were born in it. You need to respect all countries. And be very open to each other's, of course.
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When do we start feeling like the world belongs to us? I don't know. Tomorrow.
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When discussing Bach’s six Brandenburg concertos, the artistically aware person usually states, among other things, that when these masterpieces were composed, the stars were dancing in heavens. God and his dwelling place are always involved whenever these people talk about Bach.
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When great depths of unrelenting sorrow are punctuated by great peaks of joy and liberation, the result is delicious.
