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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As children of God we are somebody. He will build us, mold us, and magnify us if we will but hold our heads up, our arms out, and walk with him.
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People say that the best part about doing animation is that you don't have to dress up to go to work, but I don't believe that. I dress up to go to work. I dress up for an airplane. I think it's just focusing your skillset, focusing on your voice and the comedy.
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I'm very romantic and of course I want to be in love.
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This was what you did in the '50s: You get married, get a job, put your husband through graduate school, and have two kids - a girl and a boy.
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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.
