Nainoa Thompson Quotes
As I am from Hawaiʻi, the ocean is part of my culture and who I am. My ancestors were great ocean explorers.
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These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.
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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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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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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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There's a lot of animals in the open ocean - most of them that make light. And we have a pretty good idea, for most of them, why. They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators. But when you get down to the bottom of the ocean, that's where things get really strange.
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I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.
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Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
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I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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We are very committed to putting forward a really bold message for the state of Colorado.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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I can't say it enough that learning how to learn is one of the greatest skills anyone can have. It's why I advocate that everyone go to college.
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This is an election year, and I think we're in desperate trouble and it's time for people to speak up and not pipe down. It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know.
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We struggle throughout our lives to learn to accept the shell that transports us through this world, and many of us take great effort to change it. I believe everyone has at least once looked in the mirror and thought, 'That is not me. I am someone else. The world cannot see me as I really am.'
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I can understand when people copy people of the past and make the future their own.
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When you're under stress, your immune system doesn't work as well.
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As I am from Hawaiʻi, the ocean is part of my culture and who I am. My ancestors were great ocean explorers.
