Yao Ming Quotes

I only want to play basketball, and play it well and be happy about it. But I realize that with being famous, comes a lot of demands.

Yao Ming

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• Less make-up is better, and it's always better to let your natural beauty shine. Essentially, be happy with your appearance.

  

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• Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.

  

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• Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.

  

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• It's actually harder to write a fun song.

  

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• There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.

  

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• I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.

  

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• I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.

  

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• I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.

  

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• Mike Schur knows exactly what everything should look like but, at the same time, is super collaborative and loves working with actors that make choices and bring stuff to the table.

  

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• The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.

  

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• I'm not possessive, I'm caring... Once you realize a person doesn't want that much care, you automatically back off.

  

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• In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.

  

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• My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.

  

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• I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman.

  

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• America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.

  

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• I only want to play basketball, and play it well and be happy about it. But I realize that with being famous, comes a lot of demands.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Happy
  • Famous
  • Basketball