Connor Franta Quotes
I wanted to share my love of coffee with a wider audience and also continue to raise money for The Thirst Project through Common Culture Coffee.
Quotes to Explore
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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
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The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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My parents are so cool, so chill, super hip. They know what's up.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.
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I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.
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I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.
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Introductions are always weird for me because my name is Hari and it's constantly mispronounced . 'Hurry', 'Hairy' – there are different ways to screw it up, and it leads to these awkward conversations.
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Using social media to hurt and destroy is callous, acted out by cowards hiding behind computers. My advice is to ignore negativity. Focus on the love around.
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Only as a child's awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development.
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What compels the Hindu right's volcanic reaction to Valentine's Day? Some of its members have protested that the holiday is the product of a 'rotten imported culture' from the West.
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In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.
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Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.
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I wanted to share my love of coffee with a wider audience and also continue to raise money for The Thirst Project through Common Culture Coffee.
