Yao Ming Quotes
If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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I am Amaxon Corazon Junia Principia Delgado the Third, and I bent over my meal and wept luxurious tears into my green banana porridge. It was a perfect decoction, and it now would not satisfy me.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.
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The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
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I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
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Yes, I am a lingerie model, but I have class.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.
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In Washington, if you're a congressman or a senator or the President, you make much more money than the average American, but you'd think that if you were the leader of the free world you'd be making major bank, and you don't.
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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I guess what I'm trying to say is that writing is mysterious; you don't ever truly know where it is coming from, so don't edit yourself line by line. Don't get in your own way. Whatever is truly there at the core, that is your voice.
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Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I ever said it.
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If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.
