Anthony Pettis Quotes

My whole career, I've been fighting wrestlers. If you look back, all of my fights have been against wrestlers.

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• I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Work
  • School
  • Career

• I had the option of building a career in the U.S. Many of my friends who went at the time did not come back, but for me, building the family business and being with family was worth it. I became a general manager within four months, as I used my education to improve productivity and output.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Time
  • Family
  • Business

• Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Trying

• I am not the candidate of career politicians in Washington.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Career
  • Politicians
  • Washington

• Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.

  

  RaeLynn
  • God
  • Friends
  • Career

• I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Business
  • Guy
  • Career

• I'm a stand-up comic. I'm always doing dates; it's just that, if I'm working on a project or I'm busy, I can't get out on the road or book any shows. Since the beginning of my career, I'm usually out for at least 10-15 dates throughout the year. If I have time, then I try to get at least 30-40 dates.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Up
  • Time
  • Book

• Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Stop
  • Fighting
  • Victory

• I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Different
  • Long

• I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • People
  • Work
  • Me

• I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Career
  • Successful
  • Fame

• I love the game so much. I've been penalized. I've been fined. I have some regrets in my career. But for those four hours on Sunday, you can be free and just let it all go. Retiring had nothing to do with football; it had to do with my family.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Family
  • Game
  • Career

• Over my career, I've reinvented myself numerous times. I covered the Pentagon, the State Department, and the CIA. I wrote about labor wars, trade wars and real wars. I chronicled a nuclear plant meltdown and the defeat of Communism. I co-founded a couple of media businesses.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Real
  • Career
  • Myself

• I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • Why
  • History
  • Freedom

• Just about the entirety of the first album, 'Brown Sugar,' I wrote it, the majority of that record in my bedroom in Richmond. And all of the demos for it were done on a four-track in my bedroom. I think EMI was a little leery of me being in the studio producing it on my own, which is what I was fighting for.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Me
  • Fighting
  • Always

• My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Career
  • Games
  • Playing

• The smart way to build a literary career is you create an identifiable product, then reliably produce that product so people know what they are going to get. That's the smart way to build a career, but not the fun way. Maybe you can think about being less successful and happier. That's an option, too.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • People
  • Fun
  • Career

• I would like to see people dreaming of striking out on their own into some other country or their own, wherever they feel the action is, in the hope of an exciting and rewarding career.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • People
  • Country
  • Hope

• Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Writing
  • Career
  • Ambition

• One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Business

• I know it's financially lucrative to go out on my own, but I don't like it. It's really hard work, just the performance aspect. I like people who look like they've been together for too long and sound like they've been together too long. I like rock n' roll bands.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • People
  • Work
  • Long

• As far as employees are concerned, clearly I like to communicate with them, since we are more than 40,000 people. I like to communicate either through e-mail or through video conferencing, which we do very often, and stream out videos and interviews. But more than that, I believe in traveling to my branches.

  

  Chanda Kochhar
  • People
  • Believe

• My whole career, I've been fighting wrestlers. If you look back, all of my fights have been against wrestlers.

  

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