Alexis Ohanian Quotes
I do genuinely believe that, when given and presented with all the information and all the actual facts, the vast majority of people will make the right choice.
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I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
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Comedy is a universal language. I grew up watching Nagesh, Surilirajan, Thenga Srinivasan and S.V. Shekhar's comedies. And, of course, Charlie Chaplin! These artists are so blessed: they can make other people happy.
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Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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It's a trend to insult Wale, like that makes you cool on the Internet, and a part of it is because I respond.
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It's a fine balance for an athlete in enjoying the moment and being really satisfied, say, with a run, and with your day, and knowing you can make it better in the future.
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Our career had a sort of funny shape.
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Now I want to make it plain that 'The Virgin Spring' must be regarded as an aberration. It's touristic, a lousy imitation of Kurosawa.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.
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At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.
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I was actually a Cowboys fan.
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A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
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What's the problem with 'never?' It keeps you from trying. It ensures that you will fail. End of story.
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That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling.
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We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.
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At times it seems as if you're a glorified babysitter with these guys, but they're all really good people. You just want to keep everybody happy. One of the biggest things is to keep the lines of communication open and just to keep everything running as smoothly as possible.
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You hear these horrible stories about the FBI just doing all these nasty things to people. And you know what? In my case, I didn't experience any of that, probably because the way I treated them. I was like, 'Okay, what do you want to know?' So I kept going back to their offices on a regular basis.
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I do genuinely believe that, when given and presented with all the information and all the actual facts, the vast majority of people will make the right choice.
