"One reason why I started fighting was because of my family, and with that, you gotta pay the bills, but I enjoy beating people up in the first place, you know, so it plays hand in hand. Beating up, and getting money!"

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Source : "Inaugural MMA Fight Pit Event: An Interview with Main Event Houston Alexander". Interview with Gregory Chase, bleacherreport.com. August 9, 2011.

Houston Alexander

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“[Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the brain then filters down to a trickle it can manage for the purpose of survival in a highly competitive world. Man has become so rational, so utilitarian, that the trickle becomes most pale and thin. It is efficient, for mere survival, but it screens out the most wondrous part of man's potential experience without his even knowing it. We're shut off from our own world.”

Source : Tom Wolfe (1999). “The electric kool-aid acid test”, Bantam Dell Pub Group
“The world meets nobody halfway. When you want something, you gotta take it.”
“I'm not shy about heated debate or passionate discourse, but when people get crazy or rude, that's a buzz kill. There's got to be a better code of conduct, some basic etiquette.”
“Note that the #1 Top Reviewer at Amazon (4550 book reviews) is Harriet Klausner, formerly an acquisitions librarian in Pennsylvania. This just goes to show that librarians were destined to rule the Web.”
“Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.”
“Women and rhythm-section first!?”
“The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair”
“I don't lead a particularly Bohemian existence. The main criterion for me is not to be judgemental of other people so long as what they do is not harmful or offensive to others.”

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

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