Wang Yi Quotes
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A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.
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One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.
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Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.
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There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
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I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.
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I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.
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There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.
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I love mispronunciations. I love when people mispronounce things.
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Men are separated by so many petty things.
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There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.
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The biggest things in life are not materials.
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I make things of my own that aren't that glam, but I'm not known for that, which has always been a bit of a frustration for me.
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I have a lot of passion for a lot of different things.
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I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with.
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I never felt like I wanted to have kids until I could be home and be a daddy, and those are the things that I didn't have.
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I really did love hockey. It was one of my favorite things to do.
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It is better to watch things then to do them.
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A lot of things that happen in the world make me a bit crazy.
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I haven't always been confident. I actually suffered with low self-esteem growing up. Eventually, I got to a point where I was just like, 'OK, this is taking too much energy.' After that, I started accepting myself for who I was, and I was like, whoever is not going to accept it, they weren't really meant to be in my life in that way.
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If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.
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The fabulous side of Taboo was dressing up and dancing like no one was watching you. There were no rules. You had Jeffrey Hinton playing every kind of music. It was like going back to when I used to deejay at Planet in '79, where you'd mix in nutty things like hip-hop or reggae or The Sound of Music 1965 or other film soundtracks - whatever.
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As you know, the best way to solve a problem is to identify the core belief that causes the problem; then mock that belief until the people who hold it insist that you heard them wrong.
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I sang barber shop harmony and sort of got into performing. And it just came naturally. Then, when I was in college after the war, I did a play, Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw. And from then on, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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There are some things that can only be reclaimed on the battlefield.
