Ashok K. Banker Quotes
Patriotism. I'm uncomfortable with any word that starts with a pat, ends in an ism and has a riot in the middle.
 
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	I don't think there is much American music.   
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	I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.   
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	So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.   
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	I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They don't know it, and it's frustrating me because I feel that it's an edge that I have, and I'm not talking about I took this hip hop class, I'm talking about this is how people actually know me.   
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	I try to keep a low profile.   
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	I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.   
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	Global terror does not respect national boundaries.   
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	Most British cheeses are now vegetarian and are labelled accordingly. However, French and Italian manufacturers still tend to use rennet.   
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	I admit the last couple of years shows were not up to par.   
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	My dad was in a hospital for months. The doctors told my dad he would never be able to walk again. My dad beat all the odds. He came back and was able to walk and start boxing again. He went to No. 1 in the world at welterweight to fight for the world title. But he never had his chance to fight for a world title.   
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	As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.   
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	I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.   
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	I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.   
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	Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.   
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	We all have our own little thing, I think.   
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	I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete. I want to go on stage or screen and be taken seriously.   
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	I think Kareena Kapoor is gorgeous. She is effortless. I have never seen her go overboard with her make-up or the way she dresses. Even off-screen or when travelling, she looks gorgeous.   
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	It was my father who - after, at age 15, I had attempted unsuccessfully to drive the family car using a 'borrowed' key and knocked down a wall of the garage - convinced me over the telephone not to run away from home and who then came home from work not to punish me but rather to console and comfort me.   
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	In World War II, the book you have in front of you, it was said and it is probably true, that there was not a single American who did not know the name of somebody serving in uniform.   
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	We come is so many different shades that it’s like why is it so hard for people to understand or accept me? … There isn’t a Latin country that doesn’t have people that look like me.   
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	Tough guys have to be tough. But tough guys don't have to be guys.   
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	Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.   
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	Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its exact meaning.   
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	Patriotism. I'm uncomfortable with any word that starts with a pat, ends in an ism and has a riot in the middle.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					