Demetrious Johnson Quotes

I've knocked people out from the clinch. I've submitted people from armbars, Kimura, last-second armbars. I've knocked people out with one-hand punch.

Demetrious Johnson

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I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.

Jimi Hendrix

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Whatever the raw material, the material itself is unimportant until it's catalyzed by emotional fervor. So in the ideal exchange between me and my listeners, they wouldn't 'figure out' my music. They would feel their pulse racing and the hair standing up on the backs of their necks.

Steven Stucky

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I wrote a staggeringly bad poem when I was 19 after a girlfriend dumped me. I seem to remember comparing her to a tarantula. It was all very E. J. Thribb of me.

Simon Schama

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I believe that the therapist's function should be to help people become free to be aware of and to experience their possibilities.

Rollo May

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Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.

Judith Wright

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Trying to run Congress without human relationships is like trying to run a car without motor oil. Should we be surprised when the whole thing freezes up?

Jonathan Haidt

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Every time I want to impress someone about samples and hip-hop, I play 'Portrait of Tracy.' It's one of the greatest bass players ever doing a whole composition with only the two harmonics of electric bass; then a three-second loop in it became every great R&B song in five-year intervals.

Diplo

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To me, any character that is conflicted inside as well as outside of themselves is always a better role to play.

Brent Sexton

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My kids are my biggest motivation.

Bobby Lashley

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I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.

Audrey Hepburn

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I need to be bad. I don't want to burn out. I also don't want to be a person who is always performance-oriented. I also want to have some fun.

Alia Bhatt

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My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.

Peter Diamandis

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