Eddie Alvarez Quotes
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
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When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.
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A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
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A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.
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Athletes, like everyone else, at times take supplements but just have to consult your doctors and work on that. It's a process, but it's achievable... It's my job to be healthy.
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And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work.
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One of the first coaches I worked with on the national team told me that I was too skinny, too puny, and had no natural acceleration. He said I'd be better off looking for another facet of sport to follow. That was a really, really bad moment. For a long time, I felt as if my dad was the only one who had faith in me.
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From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.
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The only way that we can win over potential jihadists to liberal democracy is by winning the battle of ideas.
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If I'm not living from my heart, I get sick.
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To have art suppressed is very dangerous to society.
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Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.
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But things such as 'Harry Potter', all I can do is shape my character, seek the director's approval on that, and basically take it from there. Professor Flitwick in 'Harry Potter', I kind of defined how I saw him from reading the book, and luckily that matched up with the director's vision.
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One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
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The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.
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When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie.
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My grandpa was a big cowboy in his values and the way he lived his life. For our family, the ranch represented our family time when we got to drive down through all that desert farmland and Grandpa would wake us up at 5 A.M. to feed the horses if we wanted to earn the right to ride them later. I always had so much fun.
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I work out.
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Everybody knew me as a gay man, and in my life in London, I never tried to hide.
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You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.
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As we get older, it's important for us to help hand back some of what we've gained as we've grown older. It should be one of your responsibilities - it's almost like being a mentor.
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We got four-ounce gloves here. It's not hard to knock someone out.
