Yu Chui Yee Quotes
I think the most important thing for your life is the way you interpret things. Having an optimistic point of view is so important - your life will be so bright.
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I think I hid my singing talent from a lot of my friends at school because I didn't want to alienate anyone. If everyone was singing along in the car to a Madonna song, I didn't join in because when we're younger we're afraid of sticking out or showing off, when in fact we should own those things that make us really unique.
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The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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When I read the script and saw the jazz music setting, and when I read the name of the filmmaker was Damien Chazelle, I immediately got this mental image of Antoine Fuqua.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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I wasn't a great debater.
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Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says.
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With four of the top ten most violent cities in America, Michigan will never fully flourish unless our governments can fulfill their basic task: protecting public safety.
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If you haven't understood the world you're living in, it's impossible to think that the solution you're coming up with fits.
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My parents have always been there to really support anything I wanted to do or learn - they provided the opportunity for me. I was very blessed in that sense.
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... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.
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Nobody's life is ever all balanced. It's a conscious decision to choose your priorities every day.
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I think the most important thing for your life is the way you interpret things. Having an optimistic point of view is so important - your life will be so bright.
