Yao Ming Quotes
All of the Chinese people, the Asian people say, "Oh Yao Ming, you are all the Chinese, all of Asia's hopes." That's a lot of pressure. I'm just a basketball player.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
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Our international success started out first because we became the No. 1 casual wear brand in our home market of Japan. Then, we set up stores in the world's major fashion centers of New York, Paris and London.
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
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My message to the kids and our fans is hockey's a great game. There's a lot of hockey being played at all levels. Get involved, do it. We will be back and we will be back better than ever and hopefully as soon as possible. Don't give up on the game. It's too good.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
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Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
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The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.
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When I hung up my toe shoes, I didn't look back. In all my years, I have never looked back.
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Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.
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When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.
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And Eleanor's husband was the man who did the interning. And I think they - Governor Warren, who was later to become such an impassioned Chief Justice on all sorts of human rights issues, was very big in the internment process. And I think that we simply sometimes tend not to understand or remember how people felt.
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It's a very big mental game, all day leading up to warm-ups. You're not sure if your curveball will break, or will you be able to throw it over the plate? It's all negative thoughts going into the game.
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Even the smallest daily chore can be humanized with the harmony of culture.
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The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.
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All of the Chinese people, the Asian people say, "Oh Yao Ming, you are all the Chinese, all of Asia's hopes." That's a lot of pressure. I'm just a basketball player.
