Alistair Cooke Quotes
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.
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Reach, and all that other stuff, doesn't play as big a part in MMA as it does in boxing. Guys don't really fight with their length all that much, because they have to worry about the takedown or kicks. They have to worry about so many other things that they can't just fight real tall.
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If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.
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I definitely want to be an inspiration or a role model for all the little girls out there or anyone out there that wants to break stereotypes. I feel like I'm breaking stereotypes with what I'm doing. I'm not the typical fighter, and there's a lot of people out there that won't do something just because they don't fit the stereotype.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
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It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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If I had a normal job and had been moving up, I'd be management level now.
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We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that. We started with a humble log house, milk cow, garden-raised our own food, killed a hog every year in the fall, and had the meat hanging up in the smokehouse - that was our childhood, me and ol' Si.
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Assessment is today's means of modifying tomorrow's instruction.
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A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
