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Brian Ortega Quotes

When I go in the Octagon, it's no big deal. Just gonna go fight. Majority of the people? 'Dude, I'm scared to even walk through there.' Everything's a matter of perspective.

Brian Ortega

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: February 21, 1991

Topics

Perspective Walk Fight People Go

The truth is, we have this idea that late night is about creativity and being cool, but that's not our job. Our job is to get as many people watching the commercials in between our show. That's the reality of it.

Jimmy Kimmel

Truth Creativity Job People Cool

I used to watch every episode of 'Justice League,' I went to all the movies, I had the Superman lunchbox. I was enamored with animation in general and always wanted to somehow be a part of it.

Jesse McCartney

Justice Superman Movies Animation

Hearing the Beastie Boys speak out against sexism made me feel like if these men who had once sung about getting girls to 'do the laundry' and 'clean up my room' could understand, maybe the rest of the world would follow suit. It made me hopeful in the best way.

Jessica Valenti

Best Men Me World Rest Speak

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

John Stuart Mill

Power World Mediocrity Mankind Among

I've been doing comedy longer than I haven't been doing comedy, as I was performing for three years before I even got on 'The Tonight Show.' There's truly nothing like it; it's intense and exhilarating, even though it looks so casual.

Steven Wright

Comedy Doing Looks Three Nothing

Everywhere I go around the world, we have fans of New Orleans. Sometimes we go places, and people don't really know who we are, but they know New Orleans, and once we say we are from New Orleans, we have a lot of supporters.

Trombone Shorty

People World Go New Know Sometimes

That's because the International Olympic Committee has a policy of never replacing medals.

Mary Lou Retton

Never Committee Policy Medals

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

Michael Pollan

Food Environmental Pollution Dead

One reason that birds matter - ought to matter - is that they are our last, best connection to a natural world that is otherwise receding. They're the most vivid and widespread representatives of the Earth as it was before people arrived on it.

Jonathan Franzen

Best People Birds World Connection

I like girls who aren't so la-di-da. L.A. is so la-di-da.

Chris Evans

Who Like

I have stayed in south India all my life. English comes more naturally to me than Hindi.

Anushka Sharma

Life Me My Life India More English

I do work very hard. I have been very colored by that education. I spent six days a week, seven hours a day training. That will always be the foundation of my work.

Alicia Vikander

Work Education Day Training Week