Yo-Yo Ma Quotes

Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.

Yo-Yo Ma

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I love the work of Hayao Miyazaki. 'My Neighbor Totoro' and 'Castle in the Sky' are two of the great films that he's made that I just love.

John Lasseter

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People who think it doesn't matter who owns our auto industry are flat wrong.

Robert Lutz

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I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of the environment. Recessions remind us that economic retreat or stagnation is painful, whatever the goal.

Matt Ridley

PeopleGreenEnvironmentGoalLiving

Some people said, 'Oh you're going to become a fine artist now and do exhibits and stuff.' But I have no desire to do that. I really like design and I'm going to stay with it.

Stefan Sagmeister

PeopleDesignYouArtistDesireNow

I've been doing a lot of yoga because it really centres me - mentally as well as physically. It's just an hour of my day that's always positive, and I always come out in a better mood.

Stella Maxwell

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I was the youngest kid on our street in Baltimore, and I was always playing sports with kids who were older than me. You learn a lot that way.

Steve Mollenkopf

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'Catch-22' was a nightmare to make, and everybody was unhappy except me.

Mike Nichols

MeUnhappyMakeEverybodyNightmare

If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

ChurchYouWillNeverStayMajority

If I had a nickel for every time someone asked, 'When are you doing an album?' My career is way too transparent to do say, 'Guess what - I've got 16 tracks you've never heard!'

Deadmau5

TimeSomeoneDoingYouCareerSay

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing - not the 'what happens' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

Alice Munro

BestMeStoryShortFeelLong

I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.

Norman Jewison

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I'm someone who believes that making things creates wealth.

Rick Santorum

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