Apolo Ohno Quotes
I've always liked game shows - the competitive aspect and the character-driven personalities you see.
Quotes to Explore
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I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
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You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
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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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I'm a music person. Music is, for me, the best way to cure any sort of anxiety or icky feelings. I think it immediately takes you out of your element and makes some other person do the work for your thoughts.
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A solid base for any comedy is just honesty and truth, and it coming from a real place. As surreal as this show gets and is, ultimately, we're dealing with a character that most can't see the way that I can see it.
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Stability and a prosperous life cannot be set off against a set of political rights and freedoms.
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I just really want it at some point to be OK for women and young girls to be sexy because I think that's a power, a gift that we were given by God or the universe or whatever.
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I've always liked game shows - the competitive aspect and the character-driven personalities you see.
