Yo-Yo Ma Quotes
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The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.
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My mother came to a Smashing Pumpkins gig once, and I was wearing a dress. She was very upset. She said, 'Everyone's gonna think you're a fag.' I said,'Well, they already think I'm an asshole.'
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Kobe played a game in which he really controlled the offense from his position. He really doesn't play guard very often. We had people open because he got double-teamed. In the first half, Cook hit his shots.
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The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.
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I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.
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I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.
