Mirai Nagasu Quotes
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My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White.
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For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.
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Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.
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I'm a pretty emotional person.
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The theme of counterfeits, of those that produce and sell them, has always been part of the culture of M.I.A. When I was contacted by Versace, it seemed a great idea to invert the circle. Versace's designs have always been copied; now it's Versace that copies the copies, so those that copy must copy the copies. So this will continue.
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It's definitely an interesting question: 'Do you need more funding to start a luxury business?' That's something I want to think about a little bit more.
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I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.
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People think that I'm some tough renegade, black-hearted being, evil, but that ain't me.
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Stupid deer," I said, embarrassed about being startled. "We need a ladder." "I think they're easier to shoot with a rifle." "I'm not talking about the deer," I said, hitting Milo on the back of his shoulder. "We need a ladder to look over the wall." "Or a catapult," Milo said seriously.
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The Democrats want to celebrate their successes but don't want to look out of touch with the people who haven't risen much in the last decade or so really.
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All those years I had been making movies because I loved movies, and that's what made all the difference. If you're doing it because you love it you can succeed because you'll work harder than anyone else around you, take on challenges no one else would dare take, and come up with methods no one else would discover, especially when their prime drive is fame and fortune. All that will follow later if you really love what you do. Because your work will speak itself.
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First do it, then say it.
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None of us like violence in the real world, but we're fascinated with it on screen.
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At 10 minutes to seven on a dark, cool evening in Mexico City in 1968, John Stephen Akwari of Tanzania painfully hobbled into the Olympic Stadium-the last man to finish the marathon. The winner had already been crowned, and the victory ceremony was long finished. So the stadium was almost empty and Akwari - alone, his leg bloody and bandaged - struggled to circle the track to the finish line. When asked why he had continued the grueling struggle, the young man from Tanzania answered softly: My country did not send me 9,000 miles to start the race. They sent me 9,000 miles to finish the race.
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I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and technology.
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The new critique you're gonna start hearing about James Franco, is 'He's spreading himself too thin.'
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Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
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My last real race was at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000.
