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 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'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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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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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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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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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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You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.
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Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
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Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
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Tom Hanks knows the name of all the episodes.
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I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.
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I don't have any stigma attached to my body. When I'm in my own private space, I have very little on.
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I'm no angel. You can see that. But every time I play, I will play the same way because that's the way I am.
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My fears about where theater is going - it's the Hollywood model, where people are chasing the almighty dollar and making commercial decisions based on nothing more than generating income for themselves and their theaters.
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My first joke was about a company called Five Star Parking that was all over Philadelphia: 'Who's reviewing parking lots?'
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Facial recognition, completely unmonitored, can be used for very bad things. It can be used for stalking, for example.
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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.
