Apolo Ohno Quotes

It was just total instincts. I just let it go.

Apolo Ohno

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• I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Family
  • Fear
  • Safety

• Jacqueline Rose was so wonderful in so many ways, and I was really blessed to be her daughter. Of all the things I am because of her - there's no question: I am a writer because of her love of books.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Question
  • Books
  • Wonderful

• I know I'm happy and can't wait to see where my career will go next. This isn't the end for any of us. I can understand why they are upset but I want them to move forward and look for the future.

  

  LaToya London
  • Why
  • Happy
  • Future

• Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • People
  • History
  • Politics

• Jealousy is a scary thing.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Scary
  • Thing
  • Jealousy

• Es ist niemals ein Dokument der Kultur, ohne zugleich ein solches der Barbarei zu sein.

  

  Walter Benjamin

• I'm a really big Rihanna fan, and I think she's such an incredible artist.

  

  Charli XCX
  • She

• I've often been told that I'm a bit strange. I hear that pretty regularly, but it is not how I see myself.

  

  Clemence Poesy
  • Pretty

• It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one's enemies with courage.

  

  Pericles
  • Courage

• You just get out there and be what you want to be. That's part of evolving and part of staying true to yourself - part of remaining alive in a real authentic, long-term sense creatively: not listening to what other people tell you to be.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • People
  • Long
  • Real

• When I was super young, I had an Atari and used to play 'Space Invaders.' Then I fell in love with 'Mario Bros.,' 'Sonic the Hedgehog' and 'Yoshi' on Super Nintendo. I was quite a bit of a gamer as a kid when I think about it.

  

  Amber Rose
  • Space

• I've always argued that all Tame Impala melodies are pure pop. It's just that 'Lonerism,' for example, is a completely rumbling, fuzzed out psychedelic rock album. But for me, it was just pop music produced the way that I like to produce it.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • Music
  • Rock

• I lead a very conventional life. I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people. This was more true when I was living in California, when I didn't lead a writer's life at all.

  

  Joan Didion
  • People
  • Life
  • True

• A few days of idleness have completely sickened me, and given me what is called the blue-devils so severely, that I feel that the sooner I go to work and drive them off, the better.

  

  John James Audubon
  • Work
  • Blue

• At the end of the day, if you're an actor, you want to act. And it's not something you can do in the living room alone. If you're a painter, you can paint at home. If you write music, you can write on your own.

  

  Ari Graynor
  • Music
  • Home
  • Alone

• I'm a geek.

  

  Marissa Mayer

• I like the consistency of a TV show, but I like it for three months out of my year, not nine.

  

  Allison Mack
  • Consistency

• I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive.

  

  Archie Shepp

• Social engineering has become about 75% of an average hacker's toolkit, and for the most successful hackers, it reaches 90% or more.

  

  John McAfee
  • Engineering

• I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art. When you read some books they are fantastic, the writer touches something in you that you know you would not have brought out of yourself. He makes you discover something interesting in your life. If you are living like an animal, what is the point of living? What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art.

  

  Arsene Wenger
  • Life
  • Art
  • I Believe

• The '80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push ahead like that.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • People
  • Remember
  • Period

• The brand of the future...is patient, consistent, connected, and trusted. The new brand is based on the truth that only comes from experiencing the product, not just yelling about it. Word of mouth is more important (by a factor of 20) than TV advertising, and the remarkability word of mouth demands comes from what we experience, not from spin or taglines or a campaign slogan.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Patient
  • Advertising
  • Consistent

• It was just total instincts. I just let it go.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Instincts