Yo-Yo Ma Quotes
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I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
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Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.
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A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?
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I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.
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If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen.
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My schedule is too overwhelmingly full to think about the future.
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A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.
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I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actually happening. That is also the reason Tommy is funnier than Will.
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I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.
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The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!
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I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
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I'm so happy and thankful I made it a point be a stay-at-home mom.
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When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.
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Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
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It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.
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As a former federal judge, I am cognizant of the legal issues. As governor, I am forced to deal with their ramifications.
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May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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I think anybody who goes away finds you appreciate home more when you return.
