Yo-Yo Ma Quotes
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Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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When I do interviews, I never pre-plan them at all, radio or TV.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
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There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years' time.
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If you can't respect me, you have to respect the law.
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I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It's disgusting. Just because it's a rural area, it gets forgotten.
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The world of music is changing so dramatically every day, the way people hear music. It's different. It's a new day and requires new thinking.
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One of the things I love about music is live performance.
