Masi Oka Quotes
My house is like a manga library in many ways, and it's great because I get to call it research.
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I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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There is absolutely no reason in the world of blockchain to build in net settlement. It's like saying you have got a new Ferrari and we are going to put a lawnmower engine in it.
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It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.
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Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.
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I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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I entered the acting world at a time when there was a higher demand for Middle Eastern actors in the post-9/11 world, and yeah, the roles weren't great.
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Coleridge received the Person from Porlock And ever after called him a curse, Then why did he hurry to let him in? He could have hid in the house.
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There's not a single thing on offer in this all-too-temporary world for which you should ever sell your soul.
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I was so fanatical about trying to save wildlife... I was unable to accept that we couldn't solve this problem of thousands of years, of wherever humans operated, the environment deteriorated.
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Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for creative writing.
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My house is like a manga library in many ways, and it's great because I get to call it research.
