Mike Honda Quotes

My own family and thousands of other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. It took our nation over 40 years to apologize.

Mike Honda

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FamilyWarWorldMy OwnApologize

In my first 15 or 20 years of authorship, I was almost never asked to give a speech or an interview. The written work was supposed to speak for itself, and to sell itself, sometimes even without the author's photograph on the back flap.

John Updike

WorkSpeakSpeechBackSometimes

There are no rules in art.

Siri Hustvedt

ArtRulesNo Rules

Sure, immigrants will do work that no-one else will do. There was even a movie about it - 'A Day Without Mexicans.'

Ry Cooder

WorkDayImmigrantsWillWithout

Before founding Ballet Beautiful, I was a ballerina with the New York City Ballet.

Mary Helen Bowers

BeautifulNew YorkCityNewBallet

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.

Douglas Coupland

PeopleNothingQuarterCommonBeen

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Claude Pepper

MistakeThinkingForgettingBeenLot

The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail.

Phil Collins

DayDetailHotelLondonProjectSat

I had to really learn what it meant to be on a set and what the expectations were and what producers are. I had to learn who I'm talking to and what their functions are. I had a couple of gaffes: I would ask a person a question, and it wasn't their job. I had to Google their job description. That was the first big adjustment.

Shalita Grant

JobExpectationsLearnTalkingFirst

I often talk about the PayPal mafia out of San Francisco, people that were in PayPal and got out of PayPal and continue to reinvest in other start-ups and create a huge pay-it-forward type of network there.

Ryan Holmes

PeopleCreateTalkMafiaOutGot

My forehead is sometimes too high, but bangs could correct this.

Marie Windsor

SometimesHighBangsForeheadCould

I think to many people the term 'activist film' implies a film with a single point of view - something designed to provoke outrage and urge action on a particular issue - sort of the film equivalent of a rally. 'If a Tree Falls' is not that kind of film.

Marshall Curry

TreePeopleActionThinkViewKind

I love men who have a lot going on in their lives, like I do.

Hilary Duff

LoveMenGoingWhoLikeI Love

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