Elvis Stojko Quotes
My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
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Unfortunately, we have seen terrorist groups use social media to spread hateful propaganda, to recruit members, and to incite violence with alarming effectiveness.
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!
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You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
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One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
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I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life.
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Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes.
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Fighting in the ring or cage is very much different from fighting in the street. Fighting in the street is very much fueled by anger, pride, and male dominance and ego.
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Life and consciousness are the two great mysteries. Actually, their substrates are the inanimate. And how do you get from neurons shooting around in the brain to the thought that pops up in your head and mine? There's something deeply mysterious about that. And if you're not struck by the mystery, I think you haven't thought about it.
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My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.
