Yo-Yo Ma Quotes
As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game.
Quotes to Explore
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For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men.
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I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.
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Craig Newmark looks like the kind of guy who would help you move your apartment, sell your furniture, get a job, or help you find that cute girl you saw on the subway.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.
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The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.
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The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.
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The connection that readers have to 'Rookie' has only meant more and more to me as I get older.
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I'm a huge fan of Eighties music.
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I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.
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Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of investing in your book.
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An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
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I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.
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People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
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The Puente Hills Landfill, about sixteen miles east of downtown Los Angeles, serves 5 million people in seventy-eight California cities, one of six landfills operated by the Sanitation Districts of L.A. County.
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The Sims is an escapist vehicle for people who want to escape to where they already are, which is why I thought this game was made precisely for me.
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As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game.
