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 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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• Global terror does not respect national boundaries.

  

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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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• 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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• 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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• Patriotism. I'm uncomfortable with any word that starts with a pat, ends in an ism and has a riot in the middle.

  

  Ashok K. Banker
  • Word
  • Uncomfortable
  • Patriotism