Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good.
It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.
The American idea that everyone graduates high school at 18 is a good one.
I'm an accumulation of every single thing I've done, good and bad.
One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new people coming into the company from the excellent universities around us.
Well, I think first of all, probably the most fundamental thing is that we are a mixed-signal analog semiconductor company, which, along with some of the other well-known names in the industry, enjoys very good economics.
Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write something every day.
People always try to separate the good from the bad in Clinton and say that, if he had not done certain things, he would have been a great president. But you can't do that. Those were his major characteristics.
It's always good to find out what you don't want to do.
I'm no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project.
I don't like talking about myself. I'm not really interested in myself. One of the good things about being a supporting actor is that you get to talk about other people.
In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.
You know, you kind of lose some self-confidence after having kids because you'll never be the way you were. But I feel good.
I'm a chocoholic. I need chocolate every day, like one little piece of Droste. I'm not into milk chocolate. But I don't like it when its super bitter. I need a sweet factor in there. I go for the 75 percent - that's good enough for me.
I like solitude. I'm very good at being disconnected. I do a lot of disappearing. People who know me go, 'Oh yeah, Mailman, she's gone into her cave again.' I'm like that, a bit of a hibernating bear. Like that crocodile that just sits there in the w...
People are inevitably disappointed, because no one's as good as Bill Clinton's first impression. Or, he's done things. He's disappointed people in a variety of ways. And so then, the fall is hard.
This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.
I was a good student when I was a kid, and I did everything I was supposed to do, and I got A's.
I'm a big believer in that if you focus on good skin care, you really won't need a lot of makeup.
Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.
Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
