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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Mountaineering has always been a huge hobby of mine.
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If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
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It was more possible that the human race possessed some spark of divinity that was worth cultivating than that a mysterious being was up there in the ether somewhere with anthropomorphic qualities of goodness and mercy running the whole show.
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I really did put up all my wedding pictures on my website. And I swear to you, my wedding pictures got downloaded just as much as my bikini pictures.
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The United States and Arizona are both losing jobs to offshore locations.
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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.
