Yo-Yo Ma Quotes
When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
Quotes to Explore
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If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.
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Body experience... is the centre of creation.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.
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What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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I mean, sometimes when you do a show or a campaign with a designer, you get along with them really well and you become friends. And then, sometimes, people are just a bit... weird.
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If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
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I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.
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I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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If we really wanted to be cool, and everyone in the world had Pro Tools, we could just put it up on the internet and everyone could make their own record out of it.
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Politicians can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridiculed, but they can never forgive being ignored.
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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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No matter how happy or hopeful I am, I always tend to drift back to that. It's underneath all the music I've ever written... An artist is trying to tell you how he's feeling. And if that accidentally becomes entertaining, it becomes a career.
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News photography teaches you to think fast.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
