Sxip Shirey Quotes

I live in a neighborhood that's really filled with sound - there's a lot of Jamaican auto body shops, and the guys next door play hip hop.

Sxip Shirey

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I get on all right with my parents. But I don't see them very much. They split up when I was eight. I stayed with my mum, but I felt it was a bit soft with her. I could do whatever I liked, and I wasn't getting nowhere, so I went to stay with my dad.

Joe Strummer

ParentsRightSeeWhateverUpHer

I've always wanted to work in America because of those brilliant east-coast political movies of the '70s and '80s - great scripts, wonderful performances, gritty urban parable.

Andrew Lincoln

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Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.

Max Lerner

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The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.

Stephen Fry

WordsYouOverPaperWriterCracks

I've wrestled my whole life, and when I got done with college, I went back to school to become a firefighter. I liked MMA, but I didn't really know if I wanted to get punched in the face!

Stipe Miocic

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I don't know how well-known it is, but I had back surgery in '07, and it took about two years to recover.

Ronnie Coleman

BackKnowTwoYearsSurgeryHow

Triple H was one of the main proponents of women's wrestling.

Mick Foley

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People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property.

Michael Nesmith

PeopleReal EstateControlNewKind

There's something very, very powerful about having a life mate that you are attracted to but then can also have a beer with.

Michael Pitt

LifeBeerYouPowerfulSomething

It's absolutely wrong that I don't want guys to challenge me. And the people who say that aren't in the room.

Michael Jordan

ChallengePeopleMeWrongSayWant

I'm creative; I'm not re-creative.

Donald Byrd

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