Manti Te'o Quotes
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In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's decision to grandfather in the older ophthalmologists and not require them to recertify.
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I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
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I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.
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I've always wanted to do a period piece.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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All the energy, all the pain, sweat and tears that go into it, the amount I had to put in to get me to where I had to play, it was more taxing on me physically and mentally than it was good for me.
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I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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You can't invest in natural gas on a daily basis. It's too volatile. But if you think of natural gas as a long-term holding, then you push your profit horizon out. A long-term time horizon would be at least two years.
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Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later.
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I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I've been on 'The Daily Show,' people think I'm a comedian. That's not how I see myself.
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The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.
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For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.
