Yo-Yo Ma Quotes
I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
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I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
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I'm very competitive, and I want to win.
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I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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I miss both of my parents terribly every day, but especially as we approach Thanksgiving. We always came together as a family for that holiday, playing capture the flag and touch football and laughing a lot.
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Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.
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My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the Stone Age. And we would shove them back into the Stone Age with Air power or Naval power-not with ground forces.
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Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
