Anthony Pettis Quotes

I have a taekwondo background, but I also try to invent new moves and make sure that when I step into the Octagon, I'm a different fighter.

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• Golf was never a religion to me.

  

  Dan Jenkins
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  • Never
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• Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.

  

  Gary Busey
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• I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.

  

  Karen McCarthy
  • Best
  • Made
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• I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.

  

  Samantha Fox
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• We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Up
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• I've found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I've done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book.

  

  Gayle Forman
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• Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.

  

  Ed Smith
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  • Black
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• Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

  

  H. L. Hunt
  • Work
  • Want
  • Motivational

• Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • World
  • Wise
  • Show

• I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • School
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• You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • Religion
  • Disrespect

• Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • World
  • May
  • Fear

• You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Kids
  • You
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• Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Mind
  • Moments
  • Happiness

• Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Remember
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• Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

  

  Barbara Kruger
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• The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Light

• In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Time
  • Failure
  • Promise

• I would say, stay the hell away from the party scene. Anything you put in front of your goal, and especially something like that, whether it's too much gambling, too much food, too much cold beers on the weekend - anything that you put in front of the prize is going to end up getting in the way and hurting you in the end.

  

  Brad Renfro
  • Up
  • Food
  • Party

• A lot of people think that public speaking means that you are standing at a podium giving a speech, but public speaking comes in lots of different formats.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• I never felt poor. Our family euphemism was that we were broke, which I think psychologically gave you a different feeling. There were people far worse than we were.

  

  Joe R. Lansdale
  • People
  • Different
  • Family

• I have a taekwondo background, but I also try to invent new moves and make sure that when I step into the Octagon, I'm a different fighter.

  

  Anthony Pettis
  • Different