Apolo Ohno Quotes
The fact that I didn't have a mom is a challenge; it was a struggle; and we made the best of it, and because of that my relationship with my dad is that much stronger.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
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Corruption is everywhere. It's not just in the Congress. Corruption is not just your prerogative or mine.
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The most amazing thing about Karl Lagerfeld is that no matter what you ask him, you will always get an interesting answer. We even exchanged notes about ponytails.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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We only had white socks in Romania. But when I used to come back from the States, I used to bring back pink and yellow socks with all kind of designs, and hair clips and elastic bands for the ponytail that had colourful designs.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
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Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
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Our plan is what the Scottish government had with the U.K. It's an agreement to consult over the independence of Catalonia. And we will not abandon this plan until the end.
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I am used to training 10 to 12 sessions a week, so I have the physical and mental endurance that comes with being an athlete.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
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Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.
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The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living faith reflected in daily service, the discipline of hard work and stick-to-itiveness, and a capacity to struggle in the face of adversity.
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Man conquers the world by conquering himself.
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Jesus believed that God’s will being done on earth as in heaven was God’s chief priority.
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We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
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The fact that I didn't have a mom is a challenge; it was a struggle; and we made the best of it, and because of that my relationship with my dad is that much stronger.
