Kristi Yamaguchi Quotes
Dorothy Hamill was my big idol as a kid. She'd won the Olympics in 1976. She was America's sweetheart with her personality, her talent, her haircut.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don't. We need to delink terrorism from religion - to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.
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I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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The way that I opened the door for the young people that come from where I come from and that have a different background, that is what I want to be remembered for.
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
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I came into this league by myself, and I'll leave by myself.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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The reason behind Hrithik being the best dancer is that he never takes his work for granted.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
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Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear.
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When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.
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That is what thrills me, personally. Small acts of kindness; thoughtful, large acts of kindness. I feel like we're in a bit of a precipice, and I think that any beautiful energy on the kindness continuum will just help us fall into a lovelier place.
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Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.
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People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol.
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Dorothy Hamill was my big idol as a kid. She'd won the Olympics in 1976. She was America's sweetheart with her personality, her talent, her haircut.
