Apolo Ohno Quotes
I've always liked game shows - the competitive aspect and the character-driven personalities you see.
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I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.
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Oakland kids are always the best.
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We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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Berlin is in a state of transition. There are lots of people who don't stay here. They pass through. They might not 'clean up,' but they mature. It is a city where people spend a significant time in their lives, and then they move on.
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I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty 'surya namaskars' in a row.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.
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When I was doing fringe theatre, my ambition was to do repertory. When I got to rep it was to do national theatre; then it was t,o get a couple of parts in television. I never had this great desire to overreach myself. I was too busy enjoying acting. I was just obsessed with it.
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Our boundaries have dissolved, and we're going to still do things that are somewhat familiar that people like, but we're also going to stretch out and take chances beyond what we've done before.
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Trying to keep a relationship going on the phone is disastrous.
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Big Bird went through his very human kind of struggles as a child. No other children's character has been that complete and detailed.
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Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process.
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I'm the kind of person who buys a new thing, wears it so much and then is totally sick of it.
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I've always liked game shows - the competitive aspect and the character-driven personalities you see.
