Anna Akana Quotes
My YouTube channel is kind of a library of all my issues I've lived with. To process it emotionally, it's been good and bad.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
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You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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Given an opportunity, Modi has violated the freedom of press both in letter and spirit. He destroys freedom of the press whenever he gets a chance.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
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We were raised very colour blind. I had gone to school and to camp for so long with white people, I think I was like 15 years old before I realised I was black.
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I definitely want to start a family, but that will happen when it's supposed to.
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History has always judged silence and complicity harshly in these times of moral consequence.
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A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.
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The key is to somehow find a way of tackling rent-seeking, crony capitalism, and corruption - legal and illegal - and build fairer, more equal society without compromising innovation or entrepreneurship.
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My YouTube channel is kind of a library of all my issues I've lived with. To process it emotionally, it's been good and bad.
