Alex Aiono (Martin Alexander Aiono) Quotes

I can’t play a show without acknowledging why I’m playing the show.

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• I've known Bezos for decades, since the very early days of Amazon, so it's no surprise to me that he's smart or willing to make big bets.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Smart
  • Surprise
  • Known

• Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Matter
  • Egg
  • Duck

• Gay activists claim that because I don't subscribe to their political agenda, I am a homophobe, meaning I have a mental disorder - because that is what phobias are.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Political
  • Gay
  • Agenda

• I was a filmy kid. I was two when I faced the camera for the first time. My parents realised it pretty early, and I'm really thankful to them for their support and help.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • Help
  • Pretty

• It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy.' And I was like, 'No! No!' But I was able to get my foot in the door through comedy. I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to do it.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Opportunity
  • Funny
  • College

• I'm very good friends with my former coaches. We speak on the phone a lot.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Good Friends

• The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Work
  • Better
  • Look

• Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Children
  • Culture
  • Law

• I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.

  

  Osric Chau
  • Try
  • I Can
  • Filmmaking

• The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Life
  • War
  • Death

• If you look at one of the basic underlying tenets of liberty, it's freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to access of information. If we start sequestering that and blocking it off, you're going to have pockets around the world that are going to become more and more isolated.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Start

• The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Power
  • Wisdom
  • Successful

• I'm lactose intolerant, so usually pizza makes me feel horrible. But I'll occasionally go very hard and do pizza and pineapple.

  

  Alex Wolff
  • Pizza

• Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Green
  • Rules
  • Green Day

• Don't need cars cause we've learned to fly on Saturn.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Fly
  • Cars
  • Saturn

• I was known as the little girl with the big voice.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Girl
  • Voice
  • Littles

• Do we know what we look like? Not really.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Know
  • Like
  • Look

• Astronauts working for the government will always need to be either pilots or mission specialists. Those who want to be pilots should have military experience - ideally, a test pilot background.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Experience
  • Government
  • Military

• I once heard some idiot on the radio saying that all great art has suffering as its dominant theme, and that the greatest artists are only able to create because they suffer immensely in their own lives. What a bunch of bullshit. Look at Van Gogh's paintings: there's as much joy in them as there is pain. Suffering is only a single color, and by itself it's boring.

  

  Bart Yates
  • Pain
  • Joy
  • Suffering

• You know, it's hard sometimes to just detach yourself from what you're doing.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Know
  • Sometimes
  • Yourself

• We had a segment called Tampon Tuesdays that I was very proud of; that was hilarious because there are a lot of women's issues out there that a lot of people don't know about because they're not women, and they don't have to go through them.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Women
  • Proud

• I just pretended I was someone else until that someone else became me.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Confidence

• I can’t play a show without acknowledging why I’m playing the show.

  

  Alex Aiono
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