Conor McGregor Quotes

It's a tough pill to swallow but we can either run from adversity or we can face our adversity head on and conquer it. And that's what I plan to do.

Conor McGregor

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• The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Life
  • Celebrity

• When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Musicians

• You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • You
  • Know
  • Person

• No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Great
  • Art
  • Study

• I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • World
  • Reading
  • Thought

• I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Free

• I love action movies.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Love
  • Action
  • Movies

• As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Professional
  • Actor
  • Choice

• Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember - there's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Women
  • Remember
  • Help

• When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Movies
  • Everything
  • Learned

• It's sweet that I don't have to do my laundry.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Sweet
  • Laundry

• There are not enough going into production so that we can tout them. Look at 'Precious'... In order for them to stand out, they have to get made in the first place, and that's just not happening enough.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Enough
  • Look
  • Stand

• And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Happy
  • Training
  • Mission

• I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Book

• When I first started playing golf, I was heavily into softball and basketball.

  

  Paula Creamer
  • Golf
  • Basketball
  • Softball

• 'Miracle at St. Anna.' I was challenged by Spike Lee. When he offered me the film, he looked me square in the eye and said, 'You start this film off and you end this film. I don't want a dry eye in the theatre. Can you pull that off?' He was dead serious.

  

  Laz Alonso
  • Serious
  • Theatre
  • Miracle

• I think it's beautiful to be able to cover yourself in metal. I love the color and the way it reflects. But it is also a protection.

  

  Daphne Guinness
  • Beautiful
  • Color

• I pray in my own way, not regularly, and I wouldn't say structured prayers. What I'm praying to I'm not sure. I'd be a firm agnostic.

  

  Keith Barry

• One of the great things about film is that, typically anything that's introduced in the first five minutes, the audiences will by into.

  

  William Mapother
  • Film
  • Things
  • Audience

• Someone once said, 'Adversity introduces a man to himself.' For some reason, that's scary, but most people discover that adversity does make them stronger.

  

  Max Cleland
  • People
  • Men
  • Growth

• The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.

  

  Bob Woodward
  • Up
  • Interesting

• Most people think that 'I don't recall' is a clever answer. But it isn't that clever. You might not recall that you had bacon and eggs for breakfast- but if you killed your mother, you'll remember it.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • People
  • Remember
  • Mother

• For me, I guess I feel like the notion of 'feel good' entertainment... I'm all for it, but I just think you really, really, really have to earn it. I'm not sure I have a lot of movies in me where I see a world that earns it.

  

  Karyn Kusama
  • World
  • Good

• It's a tough pill to swallow but we can either run from adversity or we can face our adversity head on and conquer it. And that's what I plan to do.

  

  Conor McGregor
  • Adversity