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“Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant.”
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“It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.”
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“Just because you believe it doesn't make it so.”
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“A lot of people wanted to try to make me the white Nicki Minaj. That’s not what I’m trying to do. I love ‘hood’ music, but my talent is as a singer.”
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“Sincerity is the foundation of the spiritual life.”
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“In some way I felt I was never good enough until I started fighting. I was always striving to show my worth and value.”
Source : Randy Couture (2009). “Becoming the Natural: My Life In and Out of the Cage”, p.6, Simon and Schuster
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“I had always functioned with dignity, wanting to appear intelligent, macho, never vulnerable or insecure. But now I realize that... a part of these comic characters is a fundamental part of me too.”
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“Each step may seem to take forever, but no matter how uninspired you feel, continue to follow your practice schedule precisely and consistently. This is how we can use our greatest enemy, habit, against itself.”
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“Society has put up so many boundaries, so many limitations on what’s right and wrong that it’s almost impossible to get a pure thought out. It’s like a little kid, a little boy, looking at colors, and no one told him what colors are good, before somebody tells you you shouldn’t like pink because that’s for girls, or you’d instantly become a gay two-year-old. Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better color. Everyone’s born confident, and everything’s taken away from you”
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“Do you think a champion is made out of thin air? It’s through the hardships you endure that you’ll gain real strength.”
Source : Gail Tsukiyama (2007). “The Street of a Thousand Blossoms”, p.178, Macmillan
