Yo-Yo Ma Quotes
My job as a performer is to make sure that whatever happens in a performance lives in somebody else, that it's memorable... If you forget tomorrow what you heard yesterday, there's really not much point in you having been there - or me, for that matter.Yo-Yo Ma
Quotes to Explore
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There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.
Basmah bint Saud -
The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
Earl Weaver -
When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
J. C. Watts -
There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
Carl Bernstein -
I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
Kailash Kher -
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
A. J. P. Taylor
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
Kate Moss -
We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
Ingvar Kamprad -
All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
D. H. Lawrence -
At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
Canelo Alvarez -
I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
Dalai Lama -
I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
Yolanda Adams
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I think that Americans, they love comfort more than Europeans. Americans created the T-shirt, the sweat pants, and they create the best sporting shoes.
Carine Roitfeld -
The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.
Pam Ferris -
Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.
G. Stanley Hall -
I worked with Michael Black and Michael Showalter on their show 'Michael and Michael Have Issues.' We did some stuff on that, but it ended up not getting picked up for a second season. There will be more stuff, but not right now. Michael Showalter and I are literally next-door neighbors. We see quite a lot of each other.
Zak Orth -
You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
Larry Wilmore -
You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.
Felix Dennis
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My favorite job, and definitely the one that means the most to me, is 'Queer Eye.'
Karamo Brown -
The tones of gray, pale turquoise and pink will prevail.
Christian Dior -
I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.
Ernest Hemingway -
It's hard to say what role race really played in my case.
Jayson Blair -
It seems every morning I wake up to face a list of 20 things to do, with time only to do 10, and somehow I always wind up squishing in 30.
Karen Salmansohn -
My job as a performer is to make sure that whatever happens in a performance lives in somebody else, that it's memorable... If you forget tomorrow what you heard yesterday, there's really not much point in you having been there - or me, for that matter.
Yo-Yo Ma