Dustin Poirier Quotes
My goal is to prosper and be a world champion and make money and retire and say I did it.
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Obviously it makes a difference if an author has a public online profile of some sort, even just down to the level of having a moderately popular blog. Most books sell 5, 10, or 15 thousand copies. Most are midlist books. With those people, even a modest online presence can make a difference in sales.
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I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing off all the time: mocking the preacher, imitating people and the things they did. I later learned my mother used to be just as goofy as I was when she was younger. I mean, Eddie Murphy in 'Coming to America?' My hero.
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CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.
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Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
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The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
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I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
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Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.
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You can live a wonderful life, you can love God with all your heart, and you can love your husband or wife very passionately and have a balance in your life. I live by balance.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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I really like cable T.V.
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When I'm passionate about something, I just get excited.
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No such thing as a Dixiecrat.
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Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
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Strong women, that's who I really respect.
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Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.
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As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.
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Always understand the risk/reward of the trade as it now stands, not as it existed when you put the position on. Some people say, "I was only playing with the market's money." That's the most ridiculous thing I ever heard.
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People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.
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The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead to work toward being significant - and the success will naturally follow.
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My goal is to prosper and be a world champion and make money and retire and say I did it.
