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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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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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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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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Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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I love all the attention, people noticing me. 'There's the gymnast. There she is!'
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There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.
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I was doing a talk show in Vancouver, and somebody called in a bomb threat to protest my violence, which I thought was pretty strange. We had to evacuate.
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When I come to Chicago, I gorge myself. I get off the plane and start with Gene and Jude's for two hot dogs with everything, swing by The Fudge Pot for a taffy apple and a turtle, chocolate clusters at Sarah's Pastries and Candies and steak at Smith and Wollensky. I find time for Gino's pizza within the next 12 hours.
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I have always been a person who is extremely comfortable in my skin. I have always just been myself in all these years on the public platform.
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I was recently realizing that I've probably spent 80 percent of my life in studios! It's very difficult to do that and still have a private life; it's very difficult to do anything else.
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Biking takes so much time. You need three hours to get in a good ride. In one hour, you can get in a good run.
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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.
