China Machado Quotes
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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We at Fidelity view ourselves just as much a financial information processing company as an investment management firm. That may not be too newsworthy.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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I cannot believe that I get a tour bus. I've been traveling in a van for 15 years. I used to look at people who were on buses and be like, 'Whoa, man, some day.'
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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Everyone Instagrams all the people they are with. I get that it's part of the job. But there's a point where it's like, 'Can't you just be a person and have a separate life to your job?'
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I think Mr. Trump's people are very, very passionate, and they're angry because of the way that this country has been taken advantage of from so many other countries. That's a frustration level I think a lot of people in this country feel, and people express it in different ways.
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Once your career becomes about something other than the music, then that's what it is. I'll never make that mistake.
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There's more to life than basketball. The most important thing is your family and taking care of each other and loving each other no matter what.
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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
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No man has ever paid a single bill in my life - I didn't want it.
