Eddie Alvarez Quotes
I want the best guys the promotion has to offer, put them in front of me, and I'll beat them.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
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I don't understand why young entrepreneurs feel this pressure to take venture capital or go public. Don't get me wrong: Public companies are A-OK with me. I just think there is another way. Staying private is a lot more sane.
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Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.
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Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.
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I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.
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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of God.
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The more you stay with and/or complain about a toxic person, the more you're merely delaying doing the important inner work you need to do - to heal your wounds, expand your limiting beliefs, and show yourself far more love and respect.
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For women especially, it's important to be financially independent.
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It's hard to live in a blind and aimless - or dishonest, rather - narrative when somebody in your family is going farther toward - or at least think they are and say they are - their true self.
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What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.
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I started writing music with my cousin at, like, 16 and traveled with a '70s band.
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Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.
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I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don't like who I am.
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Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.
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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
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Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.
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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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Like all Americans, Arkansans hurt for the Syrian refugees. The hardships they face are beyond most of our understanding, and my thoughts and prayers are with them, but I will not support a policy that poses real risk to Americans.
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One of the reasons I took up acting was to learn to be more human, to get in touch with human emotions.
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A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
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I want the best guys the promotion has to offer, put them in front of me, and I'll beat them.
