Yao Ming Quotes

Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.

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• I'm not an aggressive person at all. But I know how to fight.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
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• Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts.

  

  Landon Donovan
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  • Perfect

• It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.

  

  Ian Hacking
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• We know that if you just were to take the drugs that you were supposed to take for diabetes or hypertension, just take it, as opposed to not take it, we could save $7,000, $3,000 per patient per year.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
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• Right when 'High School Musical' was taking off, one of my little cousins called and was really excited to tell me there was a huge 'I Hate Zac Efron' club at her school. I'm sure they're doing great. More power to them.

  

  Zac Efron
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• I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.

  

  Carl Paladino
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• The music is just so rich and part of the culture there. I suddenly felt like I needed to go on this mission to make sure we save New Orleans because - not that I can save anything - but it's so much part of what this country is, this whole mix of people coming together and doing this thing.

  

  Harold Perrineau
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• You know, I'm very proud of the large number of Hispanic endorsements that I've received.

  

  Carly Fiorina
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• A guy running, you know, fifteen, twenty stallions that are two years of age, never been touched by a human before, and you've got to start castrating them, that's pretty intimidating.

  

  Ted Yoho
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• I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.

  

  Flume
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• The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for more material comfort. They live prosperous lives in which any expression of pain is forbidden.

  

  Ma Jian
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• My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
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• I think great artists have no time to waste with having disproportionate egos and irrational requests. They're too focused on their work to actually lose themselves in hysterical spirals where they become monsters or tyrants.

  

  Xavier Dolan
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• My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
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• Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.

  

  P. J. Soles
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• I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
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• Having spent two years at AOL, I would love to be able to go back to that industry knowing what I know, and I think I would be able to help the traditional media side to better understand what is coming at them, how to deal with it.

  

  Randy Falco
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• If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• I've been going to the same barber the last few years, and we have great chats whenever I'm in the chair. He'll ask: 'How you doing? How's the training going?' Just ordinary, obvious things, but then, like you do with your barber, you start talking about personal stuff.

  

  Adam Peaty
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• Sultan Aladdin… had few illusions about his own people: amiable, well-favoured, courteous, they loved rest better than industry… their function was to remind the toiling Chinese, Indians and British of the ultimate vanity of labour.

  

  Anthony Burgess
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• I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
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• If I had the power, I would ban leggings.

  

  Jil Sander
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• It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

  

  Jean Nidetch
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• Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.

  

  Yao Ming
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