Anna Akana Quotes
I still get very emotional when a girl - 13 or 14 - comes up to me and says, 'Your videos really helped me.'
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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My baby is the joy in my life.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.
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I find the whole concept of women screaming at me so odd. It's very flattering, but I don't think I will ever consider myself to be a sex symbol.
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I train to fight five rounds, but if we can end the fight in the first round, it's even better.
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You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.
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The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
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A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.
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In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.
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When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.
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I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have abated.
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Everything we've been taught about health, weight loss and aging is wrong.
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I don't think guys judge curvy women as much as women do. It shocks me how catty some women can be. In my whole life, I only had one guy break up with me over weight.
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I still get very emotional when a girl - 13 or 14 - comes up to me and says, 'Your videos really helped me.'
