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 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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People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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I backpacked around the world and went to places like Mexico City and Pakistan, where I'm like, 'Oh. Things aren't quite as good.'
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When we heard that little dial-up sound, that eeeeee, and then you connected, and you then go and you check your mail and you get that 'you got mail,' you were excited. I mean, that was the thing.
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True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
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Managing bottom-up change is its own art.
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I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is.
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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.
