Fighting Quotes - Page 22

• I think the proper attitude toward fighting sports is one of ambivalence. You can be drawn to them, but you should also be repelled by them.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Sports, Attitude, Thinking

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• In boxing, where most of the guys are from lower-class backgrounds and have darker skin than most of the fans, one might fear that the athletes are being exploited. But that narrative doesn't hold up very well in the world of MMA, where 99 percent of fighters are amateurs who will never earn a dime. They aren't seeking fame and fortune. For the most part, these guys are fighting because they want to and because it gives them an opportunity to strive for something big in their lives. It gives them a chance to become their best selves.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Athlete, Opportunity, Self

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• If you understand your character and feel like it's a collaborative process, you're more inclined to dive into the deep end and fight for your character and feel passionate about your character, and that passion comes across on screen.

  Katheryn Winnick

  Character, Passion, Ends

  "VIKINGS: Katheryn Winnick Talks Lagertha, Collaborative Process, and Season 3". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 23, 2015.

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• I remember one tour with two male-fronted bands, and they had a fight over who could use the bathroom first. Then they just ended up having a beef with each other for the entire rest of the tour.

  Taylor Momsen

  Two, Males, Beef

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• If you want to know somebody, fight 'em. Have a fistfight with them.

  David Ayer

  Ems, Want, Knows

  Source: collider.com

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• I would hope to think my fans are full of attitude, are a bit vicious, and always fight for what they want. That's exactly what I'm going to give them.

  Cher Lloyd

  Attitude, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I just take fights that make me feel comfortable.

  Tito Ortiz

  Feels, Comfortable

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• I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!

  Charles Hazlewood

  Hate, Piano, Soul

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• The techniques should not be practised simply so they can be performed in the kata. Since karate is a fighting art each technique and movement has its own meaning. The karateka must consider their meaning, how and why they are effective, and practise accordingly

  Shigeru Egami

  Art, Exercise, Practice

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• Man, it seems, is not able to bear the languid rest on Nature's bosom, and when the trumpet sounds the signal of danger, he hastens to join his comrades, no matter what the cause that calls him to arms. He rushes into the thickest of the fight, and amid the uproar of the battle regains confidence in himself and his powers.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Men, Battle, Arms

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• I begin with an idea, but as I work, the picture takes over. Then there is the struggle between the idea I preconceived... and the picture that fights for its own life.

  Georg Baselitz

  Struggle, Ideas, Life Struggle

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• So one important lesson of Vietnam is, the first casualty of an unwise and unjust war are the American troops called on to fight it. Their service should be honored.

  Paul Begala

  War, Important, Troops

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• Kill myself? Killing myself is the last thing I'd ever do. Now I have a purpose, a reason to live. I don't care who I have to face, I don't care who I have to fight, I will not rest until this street gets a stop sign!

  Dan Castellaneta

  Purpose, Care, Lasts

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• Although I fancy Britney, I think Shakira is hot too. Maybe I could let them fight over me. I'm a young lad and I've got to keep my options open.

  Gareth Gates

  Thinking, Hot, Fancy

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• I've dedicated my career to fighting the mundane. My hope is that my career will be a shining example to children everywhere that life is more meaningful when you are not afraid to see all colors of the rainbow.

  RuPaul

  Meaningful, Children, Color

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To think big is to love the universe, to embrace our passion. To love is to fight for what we love. What a waste not to, when we have only this one life to live.

  Michael Port

  Passion, Love Is, Thinking

  Michael Port, Mina Samuels (2009). “The Think Big Manifesto: Think You Can't Change Your Life (and the World) Think Again”, p.83, John Wiley & Sons

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• When you’re working with Army and Marine Corps units, you immediately notice a difference. The Army is pretty tough, but their performance can depend on the individual unit. Some are excellent, filled with hoorah and first-class warriors. A few are absolutely horrible; most are somewhere in between. In my experience, Marines are gung ho no matter what. They will all fight to the death. Every one of them just wants to get out there and kill. They are bad-ass, hard-charging mothers.

  Chris Kyle

  Mother, Warrior, Marine

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• No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting.

  Emily Oster

  People, Doe, Likes

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• It is life that fights and struggles and rages; life, that tears at you in its last agonizing throes to hold on, even if but for one futile instant longer... Whereas I, I come softly when it is all done. Pain and death are an ordered sequence, not a parallel pair. So easy to confuse the correlations, not realizing that one does not bring the other.

  Vera Nazarian

  Pain, Struggle, Tears

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• New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who also happens to be the 10th richest person in America, with a personal fortune of some $18 billion, likes to pick a fight - especially fights where the line between good and evil is particularly stark.

  Jeff Goodell

  New York, Cities, America

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• Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't be able to read. I was reading Kipling and PG Wodehouse and Shakespeare at the age of 11. The kind of description and detail I read I would not put in my books. I don't know how much you can fight that because you want children to read. So I pack in excitement and plot and illustrations and have a cliffhanger every chapter. Charles Dickens was doing cliffhangers way back when. But even with all the excitement you have to make children care about the characters.

  Cressida Cowell

  Children, Book, Reading

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• However small we are, we should always fight for what we believe to be right. And I don’t mean fight with the power of our fists or the power of our swords…I mean the power of our brains and our thoughts and our dreams. And as small and quiet and unimportant as our fighting may look, perhaps we might all work together…and break out of the prisons of our own making. Perhaps we might be able to keep this fierce and beautiful world of ours as free for all of us as it seemed to be on that blue afternoon of my childhood.

  Cressida Cowell

  Beautiful, Dream, Believe

  "How To Train Your Dragon: How To Speak Dragonese". Book by Cressida Cowell, 2017.

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• Confidence is a static state. Determination is active. Determination allows for doubt and for humility - both of which are critical in the world today. There is so much that we don’t know, and so much that we know we don’t know. To be overly confident or without doubt seems silly to me. Determination, on the other hand, is a commitment to win, a commitment to fight the good fight.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Determination, Silly, Humility

  Anna Deavere Smith (2008). “Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind”, p.25, Anchor

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• A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best.

  Criss Jami

  Sick, Being The Best, Worst

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.13, Criss Jami

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• Many of us fight for and boast our freedom of what is ultimately the ability to prove ourselves to other people. It is unfortunate that only a few of us are so free in our joy, we no longer feel the need to prove ourselves to anyone.

  Criss Jami

  People, Joy, Needs

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.48, Criss Jami

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