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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You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a hair trigger - where they can't afford to be second to strike - the potential for a miscalculation or a nuclear war through inadvertence is simply too high.
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What is a superhero? They're supposed to represent hope, opportunity, and strength for everybody.
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When you're working with somebody else in that kind of way, you always have to have these guidelines to what you're doing - especially when you're working with your sibling. But when you're working by yourself you're free to do whatever you like.
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If you want to take care of tomorrow, take better care of today. We always live now. All we have to do is entrust ourselves to the life we now live.
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One of the things I love about music is live performance.
