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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I think it's handy for a dramatist of any sort, if I can call myself that, to make use of weddings and wakes, to make use of those moments and those rituals that cause us to pause and look back or look forward and understand that life has changed.
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The stage is bigger than life. There you are projecting to an audience. In television, you're drawing the camera in to you. And with TV, there isn't that immediate feedback from an audience. You do hours and hours of taping and never get that response.
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Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.
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A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.
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After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.
