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If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

- Epictetus

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It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness. - Nevil Shute

Every decision you make is a mistake. - Edward Dahlberg

Since I travel too much around the world, I take all these vitamins for my immune system. - Isabeli Fontana

Working with Operation Smile is a completely life-altering experience. It is truly inspiring to be a part of something with so many unique individuals who come together for the greater good of helping others. - Lydia Hearst

I work hard at what I do, and it does take time and a lot of commitment, so for me, it is proving to other people that I'm not just another dummy. - Tali Lennox

I like smudgy black eyes and pale lips for evening. Red lipstick looks great on other girls, but it's too much on me. - Saffron Aldridge

I wanted to be Brooke Shields, and my mother was an aspiring photographer, so I was, of course, the only one who would sit still long enough for her to get things in focus, and I loved doing that. - Stephanie Seymour

My dad is a Type 1 diabetic. I grew up in a household where we were really conscious about cutting back on sugar because we had to for his health. - Brooklyn Decker

I love my black hair, but some imes I'd like to be blond, but I don't think it suits Asian girl... What a pity! - Ming Xi

When I eat cilantro, it's like someone sprayed perfume down my throat. It closes up my throat, even if there's only a little piece. I like Mexican food, and I'll go out to a Mexican restaurant and tell them, 'Look, I will die if you get cilantro in my food.' Then there's always that one little piece that falls in, and I gag. - Amber Rose

I have this image of myself as kinda like the Energizer Bunny. I get knocked down, and I pop right back up. - Boyd Holbrook

I like Victoria Beckham - she has really good taste. Also, Natasha Poly, Miranda Kerr, and Alessandra Ambrosio. They know how to dress effortlessly sexy, but still cool. - Ieva Laguna

When I'm in a bikini or at a photo shoot, I'm real confident. But, if I'm in a group of people I don't know, I'm really quiet. - Georgia Salpa

Fake tan is really difficult to get right. When I was younger, I'd always do it wrong. I'd leave it on and forget to wash it off. So I embrace being pale. I like getting a tan, but I also think that if you're going to do it, it has to be gradual. I just work the pale thing now. - Georgia May Jagger

I wasn't really terribly familiar with the Beatles when I met George. They were just emerging. They certainly weren't as big as they became later on. I just knew them as a pop group, and that's all. I was keener on George as a man and a person, as opposed to someone in a band. - Pattie Boyd

Every day, women move mountains. It is an insult to have an international women's day. - Waris Dirie

What Aldo is good at is the leg kicks, that's what oppened a lot of doors for him. He would land those leg kicks, and then the shot would come from there, but in terms of his hands, he doesn't have, I mean he has power, of course he does, but nowhere near the power that I have, I promise you that. - Artem Lobov

Footwork isn't something you hear people talk about too much but it's something as fighters we have to be able to utilize. - Cub Swanson

We step up and fight the top names that nobody wants to fight. So if I hear people saying, 'oh, you're ducking this or ducking that,' no I haven't ducked anybody. - Ryan Bader

I like to stand and bang with people. If they mess up, I'm gonna slam them. - Quinton Jackson

I'm around a world-class staff that is pushing me to the limit while making sure I don't break myself, which is something I've had a problem with. - Michael Chiesa

I don't care who, I don't care where. I just want to fight. - Glover Teixeira

Monday though Wednesday I am in the gym twice; then I have school at night. Those days are hard. The other days are training and writing essays. Time management has been key. - Tecia Torres

I'm an average person, I just decided to work hard and dedicate myself to something. That's the only thing that separates people like me from people sitting on the couch. - Travis Browne

There are too many fights in our sport that are exciting, and you've got to let us fight. - Frank Mir

There are four seasons in Iran, so you can go winter skiing, you can go in summer to the beach... it's not a real tourism place, but it's a nice country if you have family and friends to visit there. - Gegard Mousasi

You have to beat your opponent, otherwise you get to walk home with a black eye and wounded pride. - Josh Barnett

That feeling of getting your hand raised. It's hard to explain with words, you have to do it to understand the feeling of a 'W.' That's what drives me. - Alexander Gustafsson

There are two guys that I think are underrated - Thiago Tavarres and Tyson Griffin. - Wanderlei Silva

If we fought like the old days, with no time limit, it would be better to work. We only have five minutes to work per round so it's complicated, especially because everybody knows that my ground game is good. - Demian Maia

I think against Cub I get it done. He comes in, he's very open, he throws wild shots, and he has never, I promise you, in his life felt power that I have. - Artem Lobov

I've always trained hard and I've never slacked. - Cub Swanson

The wrestling community is a tight community, I love you all. - Ryan Bader

I do want some abs. I miss my abs, man. - Quinton Jackson

Usually I'm a very instinctive fighter. - Michael Chiesa

I'm a fighter. I'm a worker. - Glover Teixeira

To represent the Latin American people - especially Latin American women, there's not many of us fighting. To be one of the ones that are able to set a precedent and to fight in Mexico is really amazing. - Tecia Torres

Until I have that belt, defended that belt and left a legacy with my name and what I've done in that cage, then I'll have time to relax and take in what I've done. - Travis Browne

I remember one time watching Jose Aldo fight Jonathan Brookins, and he just chopped him up. - Frank Mir

Iranian people are very hospitable, very family-oriented and besides that they have a very beautiful country. - Gegard Mousasi

You have to go out there and win battles before you can raid the dead of all their belongings. - Josh Barnett

It feels like my life is much more than fighting in the Octagon. - Alexander Gustafsson

I don't have any superstitions, because I am a Christian. - Wanderlei Silva

People always go to the ground with me trying to just hold me. They stall and wait for the referee to stand them back up so they can start it all over. - Demian Maia

At the end of the day, you have to get finishes. If you want to be successful in this industry that's what you need. - Artem Lobov

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I want people to know that anyone, from anywhere, can make it as far as they want, as long if they are willing to do what it takes. - Cub Swanson

I know there's nobody working harder than me. - T.J. Dillashaw

I need to be a promoter, man. I need to start a promotion. If I was a promoter, man, I would be the best matchmaker. I would be putting on the most exciting fights. - Quinton Jackson

Anytime my life has ever thrown me a curveball, I can go back to that and draw a lot of confidence for myself knowing I can persevere. - Michael Chiesa

When I come to the United States, I came here illegally. I didn't know I was going to be a fighter. I just thought I was going to work landscaping for, I don't know, three, four years, then go back to Brazil and live my life. - Glover Teixeira

To fight in Mexico is amazing. - Tecia Torres

No matter who I fight, I'm going to be at a disadvantage in the experience department. - Travis Browne

I think the more that people appreciate the sport, the more they're a fan of it. - Frank Mir

I won the belt in DREAM, I won the belt in Strikeforce, every fight was just a fight, it wasn't something special, it just was getting in the ring and fighting. - Gegard Mousasi

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Titles are spoils of war. - Josh Barnett

I've never been a talker. I've never been a good salesman when it comes to selling fights. - Alexander Gustafsson

Bellator is indirectly creating the stars division - I'm 42 now - where stars fight each other. - Wanderlei Silva

Many MMA fighters have tried boxing before, even just sparring for a few rounds, but no boxer has done MMA rounds. There's just no way for them to do that. - Artem Lobov

I think many fighters could go pro in another sport. When it really boils down to it, it's because we are the best athletes in the world. - Cub Swanson

Even though we don't speak the same language, we're friends. I still make him laugh. You know it's hard to make Fedor laugh, he don't change his facial expressions at all. I don't even know if he understands what I be saying, but when he gets around me, he be smiling. - Quinton Jackson

I had never fought a guy before that I had put on a pedestal the way I did with Carlos Condit. I've got his walkout shirt. He's a former champion. I'm a huge fan. I doubted myself a lot of times. - Michael Chiesa

Barnett is a veteran of the game, but at the same time, I've been fighting guys with a lot of experience my entire career. - Travis Browne

I love martial arts, so why wouldn't I want to help people understand it more? - Frank Mir

I really like Robert De Niro. - Gegard Mousasi

#Robert De Niro

If I focus on one person, the idea is that, oh, now you've attained this goal and beaten one person. One person. Well, what about the rest of them? Now how are you going to feel about fighting them? What's the motiviation there? - Josh Barnett

I like to step into the Octagon and just show what I'm made of. - Alexander Gustafsson

My return was interesting because Bellator gave me a stage that was worthy of the return of Wanderlei Silva. I was the main event, sold out. - Wanderlei Silva

It is very important that football can see beyond religion but FIFA does not just ignore its impact. - Sepp Blatter

One cannot negotiate under fire. - Ariel Sharon

Acquaintance lessens fame. - Claudius

He who can not support himself, can not take his own decision. - Gamal Abdel Nasser

The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing. - Abdullah II of Jordan

It's the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the world, but to governments - and that's what matters. - Peter Benenson

If Roe v. Wade were overturned tomorrow, nobody would even notice, because the states are legislating their own laws about abortion, completely independent. - Wendy Long

The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language. Perhaps no two men will express the same sentiment in the same manner and by the same words; neither do they connect precisely the same ideas with the same words. - Oliver Ellsworth

In seeking a lawyer, you are looking for an advocate, an expert advisor on the law and on your rights and responsibilities, a strategist, a negotiator, and a litigator. - Laura Wasser

I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so. - Bram Fischer

Clients trust you to represent their interest in the highest court. - Lisa Blatt

If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time. - F. Lee Bailey

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium. - Nathalie Sarraute

We found out that we were dealing with a completely unregulated chemical, this chemical PFOA. This was a chemical that was a completely manmade material invented right after World War Two, didn't exist on the planet prior to the 1940s. - Robert Bilott

When you vote, vote for those who are not warmongers, and vote for those who respect human rights. When you see a president who doesn't respect human rights, don't vote for that person. - Shirin Ebadi

We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might. - Theodore C. Sorensen

It was an interesting experience to work alongside the solicitor general's team and then turn around and argue against them. You certainly grow as a lawyer from getting such a varied set of experiences. - Sri Srinivasan

As anyone familiar with my scholarship knows, I am not a huge fan of inherent powers in most contexts. - David Stras

It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home. - Florence Ellinwood Allen

I think people need to commit to one another before they commit to bringing children into the world because that's the optimum arrangement for children, not to take anything at all away from women who have to rear their children by themselves. - Leah Ward Sears

While driving to work, I'll choose to think about a particular subject rather than just have random thought streams landing on one subject or another. For example, I might think about the structure of an opinion. Or I might think about the first sentence of an opinion, refining it. - Raymond Kethledge

We have differing views on law, politics and religion. But I have yet to meet a Scalia clerk who was not grateful to the man who taught us, shaped us, and launched us into our lives in the law. Justice Scalia's passing leaves a giant void in the court and in the intellectual discourse over the law. - Joan Larsen

No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected. - Benjamin Robbins Curtis

New Jersey has decided that fewer handguns legally carried in public means less crime. It is obvious that the justifiable need requirement functions as a rationing system designed to limit the number of handguns carried in New Jersey. - Thomas Hardiman

I am not a fan of President Trump, I should say. I wouldn't try to comment on every particular issue in which we disagree, but there are plenty of them. - John Paul Stevens

A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig. - Claud Cockburn

'Beyond Belief with George Noory' will be an hour-long show that cuts to the heart of what's going on with people today, topics wide-ranging and generally nonpolitical, but even more edgy. - George Noory

As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the IOC refuses to have a minute's silence for Israeli athletes that were slaughtered in Munich. - Brian Williams

I think service is honorable, and that was always inculcated in me. - Rachel Maddow

I get much more information about the rest of the world from people who are not Americans. You get a distance from America that is useful for a journalist; useful for my perspective on the world. - Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Most robotic heads have 20 motors. Mine have 32. - David Hanson

Art scares me. I don't feel cool enough to be an artist. - Simone Giertz

There's a smugness that goes with being a huge company. The big fish say, 'If it's so great, why didn't we invent it?' But how'd you like to be makin' buggy whips when cars came along? - Woody Norris

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