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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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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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I was doing acting work at Fox - bit pieces with Greg Peck in The Gunfighter and things like that - and grew up more or less as a Fox contract player in about two years.
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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
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When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy.
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For each book, I do end up making a kind of playlist to fit the characters.
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Oh gosh, I noticed dramatic changes in my body after I started doing yoga, but I also think you have to shake things up.
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Sometimes life hits you full speed
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Body-shaming is something I feel really strongly about. I think about my niece, I think about my friends who have daughters being on the Internet and reading these things, and it just makes me furious. It makes me so angry.
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The more that I travel, the more people that I meet, the more experiences that are really a testament to the kind of person that I am, and you hear about my experiences and my growth through my music. I think that that is really relatable.
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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.
