Apolo Ohno Quotes
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It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
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We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.
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I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
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People are realizing that color has no bearing on what's known as brotherhood.
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During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.
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It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.
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Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the church and with the Lord and with Jesus Christ, it's a total, total turn–around.
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If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.
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I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.
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We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.
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I went to Carnegie Mellon.
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My mother and I never got along, not even when I was a child.
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Only through the development of mutual respect, and in a spirit of truth, can friendship come about. By these means it is possible to move human minds, but never by force.
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No cowboys for Canada. Canada got Mounties instead - Dudley Do-Right, not John Wayne. It's a mind-set of "Here I come to save the day" versus "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.
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I'm sure he did. We inquired into a million guys' interest. Was he a candidate that we talked about? Absolutely. Was he one of my top five? No.
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The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person.
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The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.
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To finish the Olympics like this with these four guys, there is nothing like it.
