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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Ever since we started, we've been trying to give people music that is pop music where you could just get into the melody and get into the performance of the band and be quite satisfied.
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Sometimes in your life you need a little bit of a push.
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But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.
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There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.
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All organisms rely on exchange. They form symbiotic partnerships in order to obtain the energy that they need to survive. Energy is the currency of nature.
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Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players.
