Eddie Alvarez Quotes
Money is always a motivating factor, but money has never been my driving force. In my first fight, I paid the promoter in order for me to fight. I was in the hole 300 bucks for that. Money has always been a byproduct of me doing something I love.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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While I knew that individuals had in history - and still could - make a difference, it seemed presumptuous - even pompous - to imagine that I could be part of it, that I could be one of them.
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I'm no Method actor. I've tried staying in character, and it's just exhausting.
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'
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I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.
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My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.
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I did a lot of work without thinking about it in a calm, rational way. Stopping and thinking about what I was doing made my music calmer and deeper in tone.
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Law is born from despair of human nature.
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Taxes aren't the way to go. They'd strangle the economy; you wouldn't create the wealth. And nothing squanders money as well as a government. What we need is to encourage rich people to give.
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Money is always a motivating factor, but money has never been my driving force. In my first fight, I paid the promoter in order for me to fight. I was in the hole 300 bucks for that. Money has always been a byproduct of me doing something I love.
