Apolo Ohno Quotes
We both thought this is where my hunger came from, living in the training center, living the simple life. For me to be my best, I didn't want to change anything before 2006.
Quotes to Explore
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
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When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.
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Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.
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I'm proud of 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I don't need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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I'm a very lucky girl.
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Brad [Pitt] and I have never wanted our kids to be actors. We've never talked about it. But, we also want them to be around film and be a part of mommy and daddy's life, and for it not to be kept from it either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.
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I desperately want to see the day today and do the best I can not miss a shred of sunlight. It'll be over before I know it.
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I like timeless and classic pieces with an interesting and modern twist. And I love a little funk!
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I'm tiny. I'm small.
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Will someone else's life be brighter tomorrow, because of what you have done today?
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We both thought this is where my hunger came from, living in the training center, living the simple life. For me to be my best, I didn't want to change anything before 2006.
