Yao Ming Quotes

I am a basketball player, and I would like to focus my energy on basketball. The other things, I would rather not do. It is not something I am greatly interested in, but I know it is my responsibility.

Yao Ming

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• Focus
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• In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Age
  • Internet
  • Talk

• I try to get in some extra carbohydrates and protein the night before and during my pre-match meal. I also eat about 200 calories right after to help rebuild my muscles.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Help
  • Night
  • Try

• I have written a picture book that is based on my daughters. You know, my youngest one likes to tell everybody, 'Mommy wrote 'Best Day Ever' about us.' Which is true.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Book
  • True
  • Day

• When I was a kid, I was super shy.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Kid
  • Shy
  • Super

• There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Used
  • Remedies
  • Middle Ages

• The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Music
  • Same
  • Morals

• The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Experience
  • Nice
  • Bonus

• I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Myself

• So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Long
  • Business
  • War

• I haven't seen it this busy since I've been an IndyCar driver. So I think that's a great kind of thing that's happening for the IndyCar Series, in general, right now. But it's an event that I'm very proud to be part of. I love it. I can't wait to come back next year.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Proud
  • Right
  • Part

• I don't particularly like L.A.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Like
  • Particularly

• Ultimately, biological phenomena involve molecules, and understanding them involves understanding the underlying chemistry. In my opinion, this is a particularly exciting area of chemistry.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Understanding
  • Opinion
  • Chemistry

• I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Music
  • Think
  • Where

• I still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there was anything unusual about being a woman director until the early 1980s, when I looked around the professional theater and realized there weren't many of us. You have to make more of a case for yourself than any man.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Professional

• You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • You
  • Last
  • Predict

• When I was growing up, it was a lot of punk and hardcore music going on in legion halls and firehouses, and we'd play those shows, and it was very Jersey. It was very suburban, and there's just a great pride there.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

• The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Better

• Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Live
  • Choose

• Body image - what we're supposed to look like - is made so unattainable that all girls are put in this position of feeling inferior. That's a horrible thing.

  

  Amy Heckerling
  • Feeling

• Decades of research has shown that play is crucial to physical, intellectual, and social-emotiona l development at all ages. This is especially true of the purest form of play: the unstructured, self-motivated, imaginative, independent kind, where children initiate their own games and even invent their own rules.

  

  David Elkind
  • Children
  • True
  • Age

• We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Work
  • Live
  • Pride

• The high-rise was a huge machine designed to serve, not the collective body of tenants, but the individual resident in isolation.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • High

• I love characters who are kind of haunted by their pasts, who struggle on despite their flaws, knowing that, at the end of the day, they're not going to shuffle off to those pearly gates.

  

  Jason Aaron
  • Struggle

• I am a basketball player, and I would like to focus my energy on basketball. The other things, I would rather not do. It is not something I am greatly interested in, but I know it is my responsibility.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Energy
  • Responsibility
  • Focus