Jorge Masvidal Quotes
I thought me hitting you and you not hitting me and me making you miss and even throwing more than you means that I won a fight.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed to be. I thrive when there's not much and I have to create it.
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Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
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Getting divorced didn't sour me on the institution of marriage. I'll tell you what I'll never do: I'll never get divorced again.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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My eyes are too small, and they're too close together, and I have a pointy nose. But who cares? Who cares?!
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Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
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Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.
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When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.
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Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics – it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.
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I think there's a lot to be said for keeping your own counsel.
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We midwives and physicians have a lot to teach each other.
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My most profound growth as a writer came when I joined an online critique group. What a harrowing, terrifying, wonderful experience that was.
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A lot of the music I listen to is indie rock. It's not on the radio.
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The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
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It was gradually learned that acceptance of a somewhat higher inflation rate would not really bring somewhat higher employment.
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Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong.
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Real life is much c than fiction, man.
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I thought me hitting you and you not hitting me and me making you miss and even throwing more than you means that I won a fight.
