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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• I have no problem with them imitating me. It's a compliment. Everybody has to start out looking up to someone. For me it was James Brown, Sammy Davis Jr., Jackie Wilson, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly.

  

  Michael Jackson
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• When you start to realize life isn't fair, what do you do: curl up and die or fight every second of the way?

  

  Aubrey O'Day
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• I am often asked what it is like to be on the 'front line.' But I do not use the term 'front line' to describe us, the protesters. Because everywhere in America, wherever we are, our blackness puts us in close proximity to police violence.

  

  DeRay Mckesson
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• There's only one thing you can do in bankruptcy: break your word, break your deals. It allows you to say to the small businesses, who have been catering lunches for you, 'Sorry, we're not paying you.' It allows you to go to the workers and say, 'Sorry, we're not paying you.'

  

  Barney Frank
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• Of course, I was there eight years. Seven of the eight years, we had a team. A team. You know what I mean by team? A team. I think when you go through so many players and changes, that tends to drift away a little bit.

  

  Don Zimmer
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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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