Alistair Overeem Quotes

No, I'm not going to retire. Not going anywhere. I'm focused on the UFC. It's the biggest stage.

Alistair Overeem

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• To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Reach

• All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Opportunity

• 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.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Me
  • Marriage
  • Never

• Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • History
  • Me
  • Big

• I don't know how much the other fighters make. But I need to tell you that, for myself, money is not the first consideration.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Money
  • Know
  • Myself

• When I came to MSNBC, its identity as the place for politics was growing.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Growing
  • Politics
  • Identity

• My stories are Alaska stories, and they need to be told in Alaska. Evergreen Films is located in Alaska; the company does amazing work, and I am thrilled at the prospect of working together.

  

  Dana Stabenow
  • Work
  • Together
  • Amazing

• There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Feeling
  • Moments
  • Teacher

• I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • People
  • World
  • Food

• We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Magic
  • Must
  • Daylight

• I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Blind

• For many years, Myanmar's leadership was largely shut out from the world of international diplomacy.

  

  Najib Razak
  • World
  • Leadership
  • Diplomacy

• I wood-shedded for a year to play Grandma's simple stuff. It's not that simple, and I don't use picks the way she does. But I played them as authentically as I could, with the flat-picking.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Play
  • Stuff
  • Grandma

• People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • World
  • Always

• As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Change

• I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Film
  • Care
  • Million

• I made the cover of 'Sports Illustrated,' 'Newsweek' and 'Time' all in one week, and I didn't even know what that meant.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Time
  • Sports
  • Week

• I think celebrities suck.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Suck

• People don't want rap to be anything other than it is. But genres expand. My contributions, no matter how they sound, will always be rap, because they'll always be black.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • People
  • Black
  • Rap

• Poker is just a hobby I'm passionate about. It's not supposed to bring glory.

  

  Jason Alexander

• In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the birth of the family's second child, a boy. She died during the procedure.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Family
  • She
  • Mother

• There's no place that's so dark, that I can't find you Anywhere that you are, if you need proof Take a look at these scars, and know I love you

  

  Jordan Feliz
  • Love
  • Place
  • For Her

• …They think of suicide as a quick route to oblivion, an escape. Far from it. It merely alters a person from one form to another. Nothing can destroy the spirit. Suicide only precipitates a darker continuation of the same conditions from which escape was sought. A condition under circumstances so much more painful.

  

  Richard Matheson
  • Thinking
  • Circumstances
  • Suicide

• No, I'm not going to retire. Not going anywhere. I'm focused on the UFC. It's the biggest stage.

  

  Alistair Overeem