Jerry Yang Quotes
I thought I wanted to be an electrical engineer, which I turned out to be. But I was always curious about other things too, and what if I got interested in history or the law?
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
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It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.
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I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
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A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.
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'Limbo' has been one of the greatest hits of my career. A great response all over the world, not just Latinos but people in Europe and America.
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In all crises of human affairs there are two broad courses open to a man. He can stay where he is or he can go elsewhere.
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A revenue-neutral carbon tax would benefit all Americans by eliminating the need for costly energy subsidies while promoting a level playing field for energy producers.
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The major abstraction is the idea of man And major man is its exponent, abler In the abstract than in his singular, More fecund as principle than particle
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What I do is taking what they say and using it against them. What I do is jujitsu.
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When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.
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I thought I wanted to be an electrical engineer, which I turned out to be. But I was always curious about other things too, and what if I got interested in history or the law?
