Apolo Ohno Quotes
My father is 100% Japanese and came to the United States when he was only 18 years old. My grandmother still resides in Japan, which has allowed me to travel to the roots of my ancestors with my father.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.
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May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
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The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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Respect for women was a very important part of my upbringing.
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I don't want to come off as one of those artists that's not down to earth and real.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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I've never seen myself as a 'girl driver.' I'm just a driver.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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I was rubbish at school.
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Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
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All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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When you get into a car, and there's trash, or it's dirty, or one of the hubcaps is off, you're like, 'Come on, dude.' Every woman likes the confidence and self-respect that says, 'I get oil changes. I look after my vehicle.' That's what I recommend: Act like you don't care, but take care of your body.
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Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.
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I loved things like Destiny's Child, and Amy Winehouse's first record came out when I was 11 years old. But as a young, young child, I was just surrounded by Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, Chaka Khan - just massive, soulful voices.
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I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.
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Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
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I've seen some beyond-amazing performers do karaoke who should be on stage somewhere, and I've seen people who you rather didn't enter the bar. That's the beautiful thing about it; it's for everybody.
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My father is 100% Japanese and came to the United States when he was only 18 years old. My grandmother still resides in Japan, which has allowed me to travel to the roots of my ancestors with my father.
