Apolo Ohno Quotes

Who cares if somebody dances better? Doing my very best is rewarding internally.

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• My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Mom
  • Doing
  • Seattle

• I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Believe
  • Easy

• I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Hate
  • Movies
  • Down

• I wasn't known as a neighborhood tough or anything like that. But yeah, I was, like, a scrappy kid. You know, I kind of kept to myself, you know?

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Tough

• But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?

  

  Paracelsus
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Sick

• When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its detailed plans for the coming years? That could not happen before, since German governments planned war and conquest.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • People
  • War
  • History

• I tend to mean what I say: in life, generally; in recipes, certainly.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Life
  • Mean
  • Recipes

• As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • World
  • War
  • Victory

• The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen, maintaining its essence in a different vehicle.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Different
  • Job
  • Story

• The causes of continuity are a priori within the scope of the observer, but the causes of change in time are not. It is better not to attempt giving an exact account at this point, but to restrict discussion to the shifting of relationships in general. Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Time
  • Why
  • Giving

• When I was growing up, I watched every sitcom imaginable.

  

  Lauren Lapkus
  • Up
  • Growing

• I appreciate a lot of singer-songwriters that the normal person doesn't, but I feel like everyone thoroughly enjoys an Ed Sheeran show.

  

  Jacob Whitesides

• If Democrats were good at thinking like Republicans, they would see the light and stop being Democrats.

  

  Ari Fleischer
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Light

• New Orleans taught me that mourning takes many different forms. Where I'm from, mourning is spirited. It is loud.

  

  Clint Smith
  • Different

• Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • Action
  • Ambition

• When I first started drawing the earliest incarnation of 'Optic Nerve,' I hadn't even been on a date; I hadn't had a romantic relationship of any kind yet, so in a way, I was almost writing science fiction.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Relationship

• When I write a record, I don't even touch a computer. I don't even bring my cell phone.

  

  Jason Molina

• I have a very realistic image of what marriage should be. It takes effort, but it shouldn't be the hardest thing that you do.

  

  Joanna Garcia
  • Marriage
  • Effort

• For instance, when "Gender trouble " is translated into Japanese, it produces a problem of vocabulary and a way of thinking about a quality for instance that is somewhat controversial in academic circles and also outside of the academy. In other places, "Gender trouble" is old.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Vocabulary
  • Academy
  • Gender Trouble

• If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

  

  Aristotle
  • Way
  • Better
  • Natures

• No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Slave
  • Sake
  • Cares

• General scepticism is the live mental attitude of refusing to conclude. It is a permanent torpor of the will, renewing itself in detail towards each successive thesis that offers, and you can no more kill it off by logic than you can kill off obstinacy or practical joking.

  

  William James
  • Attitude
  • Logic
  • Skepticism

• Who cares if somebody dances better? Doing my very best is rewarding internally.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Cares
  • Dances