Kristi Yamaguchi Quotes
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My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
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The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
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I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants.
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When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick.
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The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
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Product pricing is aligned to the way customers want to acquire their solutions and are delivered via different delivery models including appliances, the cloud, or as on-premise software solutions.
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I knew if I had gone to school - if I had gone to Juilliard and danced for four years - I would have spent every day wondering what would have happened if I had gone to Los Angeles instead.
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I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.
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You have people who are so passionate and touched by my work, which is so humbling. But other times, it's a little overwhelming. If I'm just trying to go to the bodega and get some coconut water, I have to put on a hat and some glasses - those kind of things.
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When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.
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Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.
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With stunt guys, you can punch them in the face because it's, you know, just part of work. You feel bad about that but not as bad as if you punch another actor.
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The poem is an act beyond paraphrase because what is being said is always inseparable from the way it is being said.
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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
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Comfort is key for me. I'm a bigger guy, so whatever fits is nice, too.
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I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.
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Every country gets fired up to play us. They played well. I thought when it was 2-1 that we had some chances to make it 3, 4-1. He made some saves and we just missed some shots. They got a break on their second, and the third period I thought we had a lot of chances, he made some big saves. We got it done in the shootout.
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In the long run, we will need many more African-American, Latino, and Native American leaders, and leaders from low-income communities, who can bring additional insight and a deeply grounded sense of urgency, and who are the most likely to inspire the necessary trust and engagement among students' parents and community leaders.
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Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.
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The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.
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Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players.
