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 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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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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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 very obsessed with not being perfect.
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But I think primarily, it's the fans that make this race.
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My passion for strengthening the community and making peoples' lives better is stronger now than when I first got into politics.
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I played the guitar in ninth grade. My sister's friend went on a semester abroad, and she left the guitar at our house for nine months.
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I wish I had Wonder Woman's magic lasso like her to make people tell the truth.
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It doesn't matter what kind of problems a family is having; it should always stay in the family.
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I think being raised by a single mother put me on the outside, and I would watch my mother's married friends and think, 'Why does she put him down in public?' or, 'Why is he so rude to her?' It seemed to me that there were very few marriages where the couple were genuinely in a supportive, loving partnership.
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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.
