Alistair Overeem Quotes

There are not many heavyweight fighters to come by, so having so many sparring partners is a big luxury a lot of other fighters don't have.

Alistair Overeem

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• I deserve attention not because of any talent, but just because of who I am.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Attention
  • Talent

• I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Ability
  • Ego
  • Confident

• When I was bald, I went through a period where I seemed to do nothing except TV programmes about being bald.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Period
  • Nothing
  • Where

• I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Silence
  • Chaos
  • Meaning

• At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • History
  • Vote
  • Opinions

• Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Think
  • Religion
  • Him

• Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Time
  • Forget
  • Leaders

• Technology magnifies differences, and it's been replacing or obviating jobs for a long time. But what happens as that case accelerates? I'm not one of these doomsayers who says, 'There will be no jobs.'

  

  Sam Altman
  • Time
  • Long
  • Technology

• There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Hope
  • Powerful

• There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I was just simply lost. I didn't know who I was; I didn't know really what I was doing here. I was meant to be a singer, but I just felt lost. That's when I went on the search for my birth family.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Time
  • Family
  • Lost

• It's important to recognize how special New Orleans is. You play the snare drum or the clarinet in any other city, and you'd be considered a nerd, but here, there's no shame in it, and it's absolutely valued.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Important
  • City
  • Special

• I don't want to think that anything is off limits for me to write about, but I also don't want to intrude on anybody's life, which is why there's very little specificity or names in the songs I write.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Life
  • Why
  • Me

• Cursing is highly effective in person - someone kicks his car in rage, forgetting he's wearing flip-flops, flames pour from his mouth, and it's impressive. But you see it in print, and it's just ugly.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Car
  • See
  • Ugly

• In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Long
  • Ideas
  • Opinion

• I'm about being honest and knowing that people are watching, and they want to know that I'm asking questions that they want the answers to.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Want
  • Questions

• At the start, I had no idea to go into fashion, because I thought people would think I was stupid. I don't worry about those things anymore.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Worry

• Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour.

  

  Pat Cash
  • Women
  • Tennis
  • Half

• Azarius, for his part, had not made her voyage to the depths of pain to understand that death and birth, in that place, have almost the same tragic meaning.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Death
  • Pain

• I readily admit it is easy to make of horses what we will. Silent, in some ways reserved, they allow us to train them, and to project our ideas upon them; to ride and drive them, and to make them symbolic, perhaps to a greater degree than any other species.

  

  Jane Smiley

• By turning from the surface, one comes closer to the inner laws of matter, which are also the laws of the Spirit.

  

  Piet Mondrian

• Everything eaten is killed. Every meal is a sacrifice.

  

  Adi Da
  • Sacrifice
  • Meal

• Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of the state.' We don't sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people's throats.

  

  Jim Wallis
  • People
  • Power
  • Church

• There are not many heavyweight fighters to come by, so having so many sparring partners is a big luxury a lot of other fighters don't have.

  

  Alistair Overeem