Kristi Yamaguchi Quotes
There are two or three performances in your life that are absolutely on, where all the planets are lined up for you and you feel you're invincible.
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The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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When I read, I take notes and underline things. So reading is a vigorous process for me, but I read in bed. My poor husband is trying to go to sleep, and I'm reaching over him to get the Post-it notes.
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.
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I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.
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I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.
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If I played tennis, I had to be in a dance class. I always had multiple activities, so I never had to count on any one of them to feel successful.
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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
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It was here that I first saw the light of day; here I received my bride, here my dead lie pillowed on the loving breast of our eternal hills.
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I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.
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I'm certainly thankful for what the Cubs did for me. I respect their organization. It's the same way with the Atlanta Braves, an awfully fine organization. I respect everybody who's down there, and that's still where I live today. But the Cardinals represent the best years of my career.
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You can call the dogs in, wet the fire, and leave the house. The hunt's over.
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I suppose I just had this Christian idea about how I ought to go about my life. I thought, 'If I work really hard and have a bit of success, the problems I'd had all my life would leave me.' But, of course, not a bit of it left me because Asperger's is not something you just get over or grow out of.
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There are two or three performances in your life that are absolutely on, where all the planets are lined up for you and you feel you're invincible.
