Apolo Ohno Quotes

The fact that I didn't have a mom is a challenge; it was a struggle; and we made the best of it, and because of that my relationship with my dad is that much stronger.

Apolo Ohno

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Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.

Jean Toomer

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I always had a lot of confidence in my ability to gauge a situation and people and try to understand them and what they were saying and what their context was.

Lloyd Blankfein

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I like everything about Real Madrid, even the club anthem.

Julen Lopetegui

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I don't think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

Joyce Meyer

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Back when I lived in Brooklyn, I'd sometimes take the Q train all the way out to Coney Island and back, and work on my laptop. There's something about pushy New Yorkers looking over your shoulder that really makes you produce sentences.

Joshua Foer

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I remember somewhere in his 70s, my dad started wearing a nightgown - like an old-school grandpa gown! I can see how that might be somewhere in my future.

Dierks Bentley

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There is no bad in good.

Douglas Horton

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Silicon Valley today is populated mostly by people who would consider themselves winners of the traditional race. This causes the exclusion of the voices that are vital to a round, robust society. It's beyond gentrification.

Chris Sacca

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Mother's Day celebrates a huge lie about the value of women: that mothers are superior beings, that they have done more with their lives and chosen a more difficult path.

Anne Lamott

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I think as long as you wear your imperfections on your sleeve, people respect it more.

Shamir

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We can make this industry and this environment and comic book shops and comic book conventions and comic books themselves, we can make them a thing that is accessible to everybody so that nobody feels unwelcome, and nobody feels like this isn't their place.

Noelle Stevenson

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