Kristi Yamaguchi Quotes
I'd try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn't always work.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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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 have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.
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My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I'd like to be an actress when I'm older. I sometimes do improv. I used to do it with my dad.
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To rebuild this country will take a long time but we have the mandate and the people support us.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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Comic books are a big passion of mine.
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To be honest, the core reason why I became an actor was that I didn't want to go to school. That's where it started. I hated opening my history books and my English books, but then, of course, you grow older. I went to film school in New York, and that's when you really realize that you have to grow up now. It's not child's play anymore.
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On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.
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I don't think atheism means one does not believe in a spiritual life. I think it means one does not follow the tenets of the established religions.
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What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.
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I'd try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn't always work.
