Yo-Yo Ma Quotes
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.
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Life is such a gift, I just say thank you all day.
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When your life is as precious as all our lives are, then it needs to be kept precious and looked after and treated well. And that is not something we should be sharing with a wider audience.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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I think magazines and interviews make celebrities into this bigger-than-life thing, but I've gotten bullied over trying different things with my makeup.
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The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
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Relationships are hard. If as an actor you marry an engineer or a doctor, it's really hard for them because they don't understand what your life is like. We live two lives. We have a 'reel' life and a real life.
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You can ask anyone who knows me, I've never said a racist or prejudiced thing in my life.
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I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.
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In times like ours, where the growing complexity of life leaves us barely the time to read the newspapers, where the map of Europehas endured profound rearrangements and is perhaps on the brink of enduring yet others, where so many threatening and new problems appear everywhere, you will admit it may be demanded of a writer that he be more than a fine wit who makes us forget in idle and byzantine discussions on the merits of pure form.
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I want to be taken seriously as a musician.
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I always find that really interesting, you know, when I get to see characters that I love in TV and film and theater around their family.
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Americans are crazy. They have this fascination with throwing their shoes on stage. I've been to a lot of shows in me life, some good and some bad. But I was never moved to take off me shoes and throw it at the lead singer.
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After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.
