Rickson Gracie I work out for about an hour each day on the mat. I do exercises that use my bodyweight, then I practice sparring at different ranges. For an hour, I’m like a happy monkey in a cage. – Rickson Gracie Bodyweight Quotes Cage Quotes Day Quotes Exercises Quotes Happy Quotes Hour Quotes Mat Quotes Monkey Quotes Practice Quotes Ranges Quotes Sparring Quotes I work out for about an hour each day on the mat. I do exercises that use my bodyweight, then I practice sparring at different ranges. For an hour, I’m like a happy monkey in a cage. A Japanese diplomat and jujitsu expert, Konde Maeda Kome, came to Brazil in the 1920s and there he met my grandfather, Gaston Gracie, who was also a diplomat. My grandfather then became a student of Kome. He passed the jujitsu on to his sons, and my father Helio, the most creative of the Gracies, took it and made it very effective.
Haim Saban Some people, because of their needs, go and become criminals. I have been very fortunate that I wasn’t attracted to these kinds of solutions. – Haim Saban
Frank Skinner The first live gig I ever saw was Johnny Cash at the Birmingham Odeon in 1971. I was 14 and went with my dad. – Frank Skinner
Masaharu Morimoto On behalf of my native Japan, I am grateful to the culinary community and hospitality industry for working together to raise much-needed funds to aid the tsunami and earthquake victims. – Masaharu Morimoto
Leslie Mann I have lunches with my girlfriends, who just turned 40, and some of those lunches, we’re crying and screaming about our husbands, saying we want to leave them and run away. And then, other lunches, we’re fine and love our husbands and are happy with our lives. – Leslie Mann
Irving Penn Liberman said to me, ‘I must cut back on the work you do for Vogue. The editors don’t like it. They say the photographs burn on the page . After some years, I began to understand that what they wanted of me was simply a nice, sweet, clean-looking image of a lovely young woman. – Irving Penn
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