Apolo Ohno Quotes
My dad always used to tell me that sometimes you have to have a massive storm in order to clear the sky.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
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For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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I still haven't found the humor in getting hit by a cement truck. My knees still hurt when I think about it, so no jokes about that yet.
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But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.
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In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.
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We have to defend America and be strong.
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My dad, Jack, had a great sense of humour and had a strong impact on me and my humour.
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I've always been a reserved cat. When I play sports, there's people used to get mad at me because I didn't hang out and things like that. I've never been that kind of person. Nothing has changed in that regard. I've never been posse, and all that. I'm a quiet storm.
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But although Australia was also involved in the Vietnam conflict, I can remember my dad telling us that if we were in Australia, we wouldn't be drafted until we were 20.
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My dad always used to tell me that sometimes you have to have a massive storm in order to clear the sky.
