Lou Thesz Quotes
I spent my life - all my life - learning to wrestle. It's the only means of livelihood I've ever had and, uh, the only gimmick that I have in wrestling is wrestling.
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'Straight Outta Compton' is my first biopic, my first period piece, and I got a chance to kind of get out there like some of my idols, you know, like Scorsese, Spielberg, Spike Lee, the guys who came before me. You know, I'm feeling good about it.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
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But I think we need the international market.
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I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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Successful ventures in business or philanthropy are built around great teams who can help us overcome tremendous challenges - and have the right experiences and relationships to do so.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
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I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
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Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
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I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
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Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.
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My great lesson from Auschwitz is: whoever wants to dehumanize any other must first be dehumanized himself.
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When I am teaching, I first give out Tolstoy's 'Childhood,' his first published book. It is so transparent. It gives you exactly what it was like to be on a Russian estate in 1830. You are there. And that is the hope when you sit down and write still, I think - that you can transmit something of what life is like now.
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All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.
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I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human life.
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I spent my life - all my life - learning to wrestle. It's the only means of livelihood I've ever had and, uh, the only gimmick that I have in wrestling is wrestling.
