Kristi Yamaguchi Quotes
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
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I was never the mascot of the Georgia football team.
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There's so much innovation going on, and there are lots of people funding that innovation, but there's very little innovation on that infrastructure for innovation itself, so we like to do that ourselves to help companies create more tech companies.
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Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.
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With 'Palo Alto' as the catalyst, I've surrounded myself with people that have kind of created a world where I can feel like I'm not gonna be judged for doing something that I want to do.
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Men think a woman should not have an opinion.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?
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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
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In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.
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I think my job is to keep the ball down. I always say I try to go out there and get early contact, and strikeouts just seem to happen.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
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I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city, and I think, 'I should make more of an effort. I should look like that.' But then I think, 'They can't be happy in those heels.'
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No man may make another free.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.
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At first, I felt proud when someone said 'Your work looks like a man did it.' Then I realized that was stupid.
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I have a 15-year-old daughter who thinks that I always had this self confidence that I have now at the age of 60. And I always tell her that what she is going through - the low self-esteem as a teenager - that is a right of passage.
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As a teenager especially, I just wanted to do my thing and not be noticed.
