Anderson Silva Quotes

I always have to be me.

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• Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Me
  • Acting
  • Very

• Radio was my lifeline as a kid growing up in Winnipeg in the 1950s. It connected me with the wider world outside our little prairie city.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Up
  • World
  • Growing

• Writing for TV entails saying every dumb idea that comes into your head to a room of people. And doing so with the confidence that it doesn't make you look like an idiot.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • People
  • Writing
  • Confidence

• My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • World
  • Great
  • Music

• Kevin Costner. I love Kevin Costner. That's all I have to say. I love Kevin Costner.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Say

• In America, we may acknowledge Washington and Lincoln as great men, and probably Franklin and Jefferson and maybe Franklin Delano Roosevelt and possibly even several more, but we would probably disagree about precisely what it was that made them great, what it was that enabled them to give a lasting direction to the course of events.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Great
  • Men
  • May

• I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Romantic
  • Guess
  • Bit

• As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to work, put the clothes on, get in front of the camera, and then go home. But in that process, I never really have control over any of it.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Work
  • Control
  • Model

• I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.

  

  Maggie Nelson
  • Believe
  • Violence
  • Medicine

• I am writing a book more improbable than 'The Interrogative Mood' that I call 'Manifesto'. It's two guys talking who speak artificially conveniently.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Mood

• I don't claim to be a great vocalist, but I know how to work my voice with its limitations. My talent is I know how to work what I have. It might not always be a picture-perfect performance, but what we look for is the emotion.

  

  Babyface
  • Work
  • Great
  • Perfect

• When I feel really insecure, or I'm in a social situation where I'm nervous about how I come off, or I'm trying to control the situation too much, I literally just try and use the same muscles that I had to use on stage - just paying attention to the other person and trusting yourself to respond as emotionally honestly as possible.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Trying
  • Control
  • Attention

• I grew up on a farm in Lexington, Oklahoma, a rural community south of Norman. My family moved to Enid, Oklahoma, in 1962, when I was a junior in high school. This cast me into a totally different environment. Enid was a company town for Champlin Petroleum, and there was an oil boom going on.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Up
  • Different
  • Family

• Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • School
  • Why
  • Reading

• I cannot say why I wanted to paint. The only answer is in the pictures themselves.

  

  Oskar Kokoschka
  • Why

• There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbé de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Great
  • Book

• A blatant Bassarid of Boston, a rampant Maenad of Massachusetts.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

• Shakespeare is definitely my first love.

  

  Andre Holland

• We are not in a pandemic situation. It is still an animal disease.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Animal
  • Situation
  • Disease

• The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; / Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; / Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Words
  • Knowledge
  • Action

• Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Good
  • Flame
  • Committee

• I try and write honestly about what I see around me now.

  

  Billy Bragg

• She tried to get even with him through psychological warfare but couldn't, because he didn't care.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Care
  • Psychological
  • Warfare

• I always have to be me.

  

  Anderson Silva