Kristi Yamaguchi Quotes
Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure.
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.
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I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
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The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the trip with him, but I'm so very glad I did. They were two of the finest concerts I've ever seen.
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No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.
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Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.
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In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.
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The people who are the most successful in life are not stopped by fear.
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I want the people of the Philippines to be happy, even if they have nothing.
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Where I come from, people will spit at you if they think you support Enbridge.
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You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.
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We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming.
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When you watch a film, a huge part of it is the music and the coloring and everything that comes together to create such a unique film. So, reading the script, I had no idea what it was gonna be.
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The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.
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It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you've done the 'Wild Thing' video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you're not gonna top that.
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The biggest thing for me with charity is awareness. Obviously as an athlete, I have an opportunity to make people more aware. The average person doesn't have that opportunity, so the best way is to spare some money, clothing, food - something. Most of us have a little excess of something that we can give.
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Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
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There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.
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I am Shiite and proud of it. But the green bracelet I am wearing on my right arm, and which identifies me as a Shiite, does not symbolize that I believe I am superior. I am first and foremost a Bahraini.
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Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure.
