Yo-Yo Ma Quotes
I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
Quotes to Explore
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.
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If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.
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I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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I'm one of those pesky Brits.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.
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I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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There is an important erotic element in A Thousand and One Nights, which is one of the keys to understanding the Orient.
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Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.
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There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, sentences, paragraphs to make their fiction intelligible or interesting. I don't know any of these writers.
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When we have relationships with animals, we often make up who they are.
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I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
