Daniel Akaka Quotes
As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.
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My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I was just a theater geek who was obsessed with movies.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.
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If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry.
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Women had a rights movement where they fought for changes. Men... don't band together in quite that way. It happens not in such a public-cascade way as in a house-to-house way.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.
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Did you hear this big scandal? Eight female badminton players were expelled from the Olympics for trying to lose on purpose. So tragically, they'll never have another chance to play badminton unless they get invited to a picnic.
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It's shocking. There is no fundamental reason. Prices are talked up by politics, stock levels and security concerns.
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I believe that for lots of churches and religious institutions, their main focus on the development of faith among parishioners needs to spread to the community.
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I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your house when you have a violin.
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There's a lot of stuff they don't teach you in the mythical editors' school. They don't teach you that you're going to have to spend a lot of your life in crisis management.
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As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.
