Apolo Ohno Quotes
As I grow older, I have a growing curiosity about my other half. My dad did a wonderful job raising me, and I wouldn't change it for the world, but at the same time there is a growing curiosity about my other half.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'
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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 would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
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I usually sleep just a few hours a night.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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I love Ben Affleck so much. He's an amazing director.
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I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.
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And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time.
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Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
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Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.
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We believed the world didn't need another commoditized venture capital firm.
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I feel like I learn something new every day, and that's what's exciting about my job.
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As I grow older, I have a growing curiosity about my other half. My dad did a wonderful job raising me, and I wouldn't change it for the world, but at the same time there is a growing curiosity about my other half.
