Yao Ming Quotes
Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.Yao Ming
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I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.
Madeleine Albright -
There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
Irvine Welsh -
I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.
Karen Gillan -
There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.
Flume -
I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
Barbara Bush -
I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
Orson Welles
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Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.
Uday Kotak -
I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.
Daniel Craig -
There was a verse that said if you are lukewarm rather than hot or cold, God will spit you out of his mouth on Judgment Day. And I felt like, I mean, I don't know. I'm lukewarm.
Maggie Rowe -
I tried snowboarding, and that scared the hell out of me.
Wanda Sykes -
I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.
Vince Gill -
I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
Carl Barks
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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
J. K. Simmons -
I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.
Narendra Modi -
I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.
Tamora Pierce -
I didn't grow up a huge fan of the Western genre because there was never a female character to relate to or look up to.
Haley Bennett -
I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
Oriana Fallaci -
I just want to do great work: work that inspires people... To know that you are given this gift in life and that you can gift other people with it, that's the most rewarding thing for me.
Tammy Blanchard
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Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.
T. S. Eliot -
Nobody is opposed to paying taxes; governments need to coordinate, work together and simplify the law.
Jon Oringer -
Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
Jean Paul -
Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.
Yao Ming