Elvis Stojko Quotes
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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I still keep my accent.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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One of the things that I really like about young adult fiction is that you can explore the relationships between teens and their parents. I definitely think that teens are a product of their parents. You either end up just like them or you consciously make the decision to be unlike them.
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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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First of all, I want to thank the Buccaneers for giving me the opportunity and for picking me in the draft. This is the nature of the beast, though, and this is a new start for me. I wish them the best of luck, and I am just glad to be a Bear.
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I was able to participate in New York Fashion Week and walk down the runway. I participated in a pizza contest in Canada.
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'Molly's Game' was a true story about a remarkable young woman named Molly Bloom. She was this close to going to the Olympics; she was ranked third in North America in women's moguls.
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I was taught that pain is bad.
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Were we a rational society, a virtue of which we have rarely been accused, we would husband our oil and gas resources.
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Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human form that is far more than just skin deep, Euler's Equation reaches down into the very depths of existence.
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I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.
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I went to a Catholic high school, and I was super rebellious. I would dress weird or play jazz. I was definitely pushing against whatever was going on.
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I had the strength and the finesse there and put it all together.
