Anderson Silva Quotes
The fact is that everything I've done, no one else could do. I don't want to be cocky or arrogant or think I'm the best, but what I've tried to do all those years was to show I was different from the others. And that's not my opinion, but everyone's.
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.
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Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.
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I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.
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I don't do negative things.
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Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.
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It was my very good fortune to find a mentor, Clay Felker, who started my career at the 'New York Magazine' as a freelance writer when I had to quit my job at the 'Herald Tribune' to stay home with my young daughter.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
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Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
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I had an insanely long commute - New York to D.C. - when I worked at 'National Geographic.' I hate to waste time, so I spent my time by writing about my life on the premise that I might be able to pitch those as short essays to magazines. It wasn't until later that I realized that I was writing a book.
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It's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.
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We shall have to practise to lead our life on the basis of our needs, not under the influence of our greed.
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The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It's enough to get you down.
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'Battle: Los Angeles' - I've got to say this was easily one of the most physically trying things that I've ever done in my life because I play a Marine in the film, and they had us training with real live Marines for, like, three weeks. It gave me a whole new respect for just the armed forces, period.
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The fact is that everything I've done, no one else could do. I don't want to be cocky or arrogant or think I'm the best, but what I've tried to do all those years was to show I was different from the others. And that's not my opinion, but everyone's.
