Yo-Yo Ma Quotes

As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things.

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• When I was in Thailand, I went into the up-country because Marco Polo didn't get down into the flesh pots of Bangkok because they didn't exist in those days.

  

  Gary Jennings
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• Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.

  

  Jack Canfield
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• I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.

  

  Lana Parrilla
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• To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

  

  Walt Whitman
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• Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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• I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.

  

  Abigail Washburn
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• I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.

  

  Park Chan-wook
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• Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

  

  Dan O'Brien
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• To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

  

  Ouida
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• Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

  

  Flora Lewis
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• I love to bake. There's something very ritualistic about it, kind of magic.

  

  Rachel Miner
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• I had a lot of times with Wales as well when we were getting beat - and beaten well - and you learn to deal with it. You learn that next time it happens, you roll your sleeves up and give everything for the team.

  

  Gary Speed
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• Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
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• What made 'American Idol' different from 'The Voice' and all these other singing competitions... 'American Idol' just gave regular old normal people like me and like Trent a chance.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
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• Yes, I did shatter my leg, and it really changed my life, in a way. It wasn't much fun, but it did open me up, and as we all know intuitively, adversity can develop resources.

  

  Dan Millman
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• I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
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• Spirituality is a growth industry. And nothing illustrates that better than the burgeoning crop of colossal sanctuaries sprouting up in suburbs across the land.

  

  Tahl Raz
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• There's an audience out there for all these different types of things. Whether it's comedy, motion-picture drama, family movie or a cool, cutting-edge indie, it's nice to know that I can span all those different genres.

  

  Ralph Macchio
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• You could write your fingers off for 25 years... and never get the kind of hearing you could get from shooting off your mouth on television for a half hour every week.

  

  Jack Germond
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• One of the great things that I loved about doing solo - which I ended up doing because I was too shy to ever try out for bands back in the day - I could sit there with a list of songs and 'paint away' for the show.

  

  Patty Griffin
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• These dangers inherent in the very idea of humanitarianism and altruism, dangers which have to-day produced their full harvest of human waste, of inequality and inefficiency, were fully recognized in the last century at the moment when such ideas were first put into practice.

  

  Margaret Sanger
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• If a hundred people want autographs, sometimes you have to say no because you've got to get up for a 4 A.M. flight or something. In that sense, it really pisses me off when people think you've become a diva. It's not becoming a diva, it's because of the situation, I think.

  

  Ellie Goulding
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• Art is about trying to find the good in people, and making the world a more compassionate place.

  

  Keanu Reeves
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• As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
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