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Demetrious Johnson Quotes

I wasn't a person who hated working. When I was working and training, I loved it. I loved that I had to work that hard. I think it transformed into the gym and then transformed into the octagon. It was a good thing.

Demetrious Johnson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: August 13, 1986

Topics

Work Good Training Think Loved Gym

Even though I read voraciously as a child, I never saw myself in books. Without narratives to expand my ideas of who I could be, I accepted the stories others told me about myself, stories which diminished and belittled me and people like me. I want to write against that.

Jesmyn Ward

Myself Child People Me Ideas Want

I often want things to make definite statements. If I order onions sliced thinly on my hamburger, I don't want them to come out sort of medium. But that doesn't mean it's a reasonable desire, in all things.

John Edgar Wideman

Desire Want Mean Out Order Things

Graphene is dead; long live graphene.

Andre Geim

Live Long Dead

We don't want to leave the coal in the ground, and that necessarily is going to involve better technology with regard to clean uses of coal.

Matt Mead

Technology Better Want Clean Leave

What you get when you put all your resources behind a product, is you get everyone to join in.

Anita Elberse

You Product Resources Everyone Get

We have to get out of the mindset that, 'If I invest $1 in crop insurance, I want to make sure I get a $1.10 or plus out of that.'

Sonny Perdue

Mindset Insurance Want Out Get Sure

Consumers now have a voice. And the fact that consumers can be creators, producers and distributors means they can push back against brands to punish them for their socially irresponsible behavior or reward them for their responsible behavior.

Simon Mainwaring

Voice Behavior Push Reward Back Now

Anything that's living is a machine. I'm a machine; my children are machines. I can step back and see them as being a bag of skin full of biomolecules that are interacting according to some laws.

Rodney Brooks

Children Step Bag Back I Can Skin

I think it's our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we're able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn's case, we as artists somehow made it 'cool' enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.

Mitski

Art Responsibility Fight Cool Start

Some memories are unforgettable, remaining ever vivid and heartwarming!

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Memories Thanksgiving Unforgettable

There is some information that an actor doesn't need, and that's okay. I can't control everything. I don't want to control everything. Sometimes, you want to control everything, and you want to know the size of the lens and stuff like that. I am so relaxed as an actor because I don't want to control everything. I just want to control my part.

Javier Camara

I Am Control You Information Lens

Men and women who decide to flirt with adultery just once can become enmeshed in misery and unhappiness for themselves and their precious families.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Women Men Become Decide Flirt Just