Yo-Yo Ma Quotes
I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.
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It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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Team members have to hold each other accountable. If there's a meeting, all members have to commit to be present and to help one another; they can't just check out when they feel they're not getting any benefits.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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I have about 4 million Lego bricks. And then a few million in storage in case something comes up. I still pay for them. I buy my bricks just like everyone else. It's by far my biggest capital expense.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
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Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating.
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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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Louisiana commenced her existence as a state under a code of laws differing from all the other states which were founded on the common law, in that its code, a new one, was founded mainly on the Civil Law and the Code Napoleon of France.
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I do love the musical form, although it's often disappointing.
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I improvised my life along the way - I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.
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I actually don't trust anyone who tells me they don't like New York.
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If I am going somewhere exotic, I take an empty suitcase with me to bring back the objects I fall in love with.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.
