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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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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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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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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Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life's experience, and half of us are walking around dreading having to figure out what to put in our mouths.
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When you're writing, you're on your own, and I like to work as a team.
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The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.
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Christians living in a democracy should always vote if they can. If they cannot in conscience bring themselves to vote for any of the candidates on offer (in the UK quite often there are several candidates for a parliamentary seat) they might consider deliberately spoiling the ballot paper as a sad protest which still says 'but I believe in being involved'.
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The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.
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Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love
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The quiet life is by no means the greatest life. Some characters can only reach the highest standard of spirituality by the disturbings or displacings in the order of God's providence.
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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.
