Eddie Alvarez Quotes

These kinds of fights, these big fights that get everyone talking and interested, these are the fights I want.

Eddie Alvarez

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• My worry about this exclusive focus on Trump - the personality and how all of this is so unprecedented - is that then the solution seems to be, 'Well, we'll just get rid of Trump.'

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Focus
  • Worry
  • Personality

• Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Work
  • God
  • Nature

• I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Writing
  • Art
  • College

• You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Think
  • Song
  • Know

• I never thought I was a very good manager.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Manager

• Raise the taxes, and we find less money in our pockets. Lower the taxes, and we've got more money in those pockets, and we spend it on all kinds of things.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Money
  • Find
  • Taxes

• I believe that eyes are very important motifs. That's something that can discern the peace and love.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Peace

• We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • Home
  • Words

• Obama was elected on a slogan of hope and change because both were in short supply: the military exhausted by two wars, the banks failing their public trust, the U.S. Congress a comedy of dysfunction, and a federal government that seemed designed to idle on the sidelines.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Hope
  • Change
  • Comedy

• I am always scared before going on stage; this is the fear which makes me do well.

  

  Kapil Sharma
  • Fear
  • Stage
  • Scared

• I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in which someone inevitably died.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Death
  • Box
  • Lunch

• Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Brain
  • Map

• And if we are honest we have to make a distinction between a democratic Israel that wants to live in peace and the terrorists who want Israel wiped out. The Israelis were told to give up land for peace; they gave up the land, but got no peace.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Up
  • Live
  • Want

• There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • World
  • Better
  • Anything

• Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • People
  • Trouble
  • Bear

• The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Character
  • Feel
  • Sympathy

• Now he had form and substance. He had become a personality, something they had filtered out of the system many decades ago. But there it was, and there he was, a very definitely imposing personality. In certain circles - middle-class circles - it was thought disgusting. Vulgar ostentation. Anarchistic. Shameful.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Personality

• 'Doubtless,' said I, 'what it utters is its only stock and store,Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful DisasterFollowed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Stock

• I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Star

• It slightly depends on your perspective, sort of how you look at these things, but when I sit down to write a script, I'm not planning to write a script; I'm planning to make a film, and so I only see the script as being just a step there.

  

  Alex Garland
  • Perspective
  • Planning

• I personally think it would be a very liberating thing for women to allow themselves to understand that having it all incorporates sacrifice. It does mean that you can't be everywhere all the time. It does mean that your friends are not going to get all of you.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Sacrifice

• For showing loyalty in the midst of prosperity calls for no particular admiration, but always, if men show themselves steadfast when friends have fallen upon misfortunes, this is remembered for all times.

  

  Xenophon
  • Men
  • Friends
  • Loyalty

• The notion of a writer sitting in a library doing research isn't what I want. The research I love doing isn't found in a book. It's what it feels like to rappel down the side of a building; to train with a SWAT team; to hold a human brain in your hands; or to dive for pirate treasure. Those are things I've done to research my stories.

  

  Marcus Sakey
  • Done
  • Book
  • Team

• These kinds of fights, these big fights that get everyone talking and interested, these are the fights I want.

  

  Eddie Alvarez