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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To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.
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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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I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it's all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the States, I realised how much I loved being back in the States.
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When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.
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I was very obsessed with my music, and I think that, as a young girl, I really wanted to get into this business, and I don't think my parents really knew how to protect me.
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So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.
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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.
