Georges St-Pierre Quotes
Nervous and scared is a good thing, it's your friend. You feel more on the edge, you feel like you're about to fall down the river, it's a good thing for me. I like that feeling.
Quotes to Explore
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn't work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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What I find fascinating is the idea that we all have a physical brain, but we also have this mental part, and we have to figure out how they work together.
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
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People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.
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I think there are moral obligations, and I think there are economic transactions. So I think that chores are good; I think that allowances are good. I think combining them is bad.
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I'm absolutely amazed when some people say I am either hard or uncaring, because it's so utterly untrue. I can't say it because, if you say you are caring, it's like saying, ‘I'm a very modest person.’ Nobody believes you.
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Stories mimic life like certain insects mimic leaves and twigs.
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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.
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In Greenville, we were blessed to have lots of youth arts programs. I changed middle schools to go to an arts middle school. Then, when high school came, I went to normal high school for a little while before auditioning for the Governor's School for Arts and Humanities.
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Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.
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I made it to Oxford, but it is not that I am particularly clever, much more that I am a worker bee.
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People who supported Obama felt like they formed a relationship, that they were being spoken to. The way that campaign worked and the way he's worked during his first term is to make people feel like he's grasping their hand, whether it's by tweeting or email, moments after an event, sometimes during an event. It makes people relate to him.
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Do I have opinions that might piss people off? Yes - that's what I'm here for.
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Republicans let this happen over and over, and there is never anyone to stick up for them. They spend too much time defending themselves.
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Actually I don't. I've never played with a bass player before, so I wouldn't even know. It wouldn't feel like it's missing, I just think it's normal … I prefer it that way so I only have to concentrate on Jack.
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Do not seek water, get thirst.
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I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve.
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Nervous and scared is a good thing, it's your friend. You feel more on the edge, you feel like you're about to fall down the river, it's a good thing for me. I like that feeling.
