Kristi Yamaguchi Quotes
In terms of my career, having the gold definitely changed my life. The Olympics are different, you know? They're every four years and it's such a small group.
Quotes to Explore
-
Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
-
I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.
-
I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
-
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
-
Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
-
When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.
-
There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.
-
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
-
I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
-
We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.
-
I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.
-
I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I'm prouder of.
-
Yes, I did shatter my leg, and it really changed my life, in a way. It wasn't much fun, but it did open me up, and as we all know intuitively, adversity can develop resources.
-
Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for kids to succeed on a world stage.
-
As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?
-
Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
-
In America, we have this bell curve of certain values. And then we have another bell curve of different values, which is the Republican Party. And they're out of sync right now.
-
Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black. Though it sounds like semantics, they're very different approaches.
-
When I'm not on a crazy schedule, I'll try to do yoga or the gym once or twice a week.
-
I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains.
-
I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not.
-
The novel is a seduction; a reader has to be seduced.
-
A diplomatic mission, like a company, is comprised of multiple departments, all of which must be relied upon to move business forward.
-
In terms of my career, having the gold definitely changed my life. The Olympics are different, you know? They're every four years and it's such a small group.
