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Yo-Yo Ma Quotes

There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: October 7, 1955

Topics

Curious Me Edge Ahead Kid Always

People think my family pushed me into running for office. The person who pushed me most not to run for office was my father.

Joe Kennedy III

Family Father People Me Think Run

Many self-help books give you these neat, tidy formulas that are really illusions. They dupe people into thinking, 'Well if I can just do that, then everything's going to be okay.' My work differs in that I don't offer quick solutions and simple explanations.

Work Simple People Thinking You

Life is going to hit you some line drives, and sometimes you'll have to think fast. However, it's better to think first than to think fast.

Life Think Better You Sometimes

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life Character Talent Quiet Places

I sometimes think my earnestness is confused for stupidity, but it shouldn't be.

Stupidity Think Confused Sometimes

I say to consumers: instead of relying totally on critics, drink what you like and like what you drink.

You Say Drink Critics Consumers

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.

Life Great Compassion Pain Evil

I'm a boots girl. I always wear boots. They only look better when they get dirty.

Girl Better Boots Look Dirty Always

I've had chronically bad stomach aches since I was a child.

Child Bad Stomach Since Had Aches

It took me a long time to find out that I was born to be an actor. It was the last thing on my list, although my list was very small. I didn't know what to do. But kids weren't supposed to know what to do back then; we were all cute and we'd find out what we'd do later in life.

Life Time Cute Me Small Long

I am a disaster magnet. I came home from our first anniversary vacation with jellyfish stings, a puncture wound from a wrought iron pineapple and a cork-shaped bruise in my cleavage.

Home Anniversary Vacation I Am First

I don't write about anything I don't want to write about. I like to think I could write about anything pretty much that I chose to. I have been asked to write songs about specific things, and I've always been able to come up with the goods.

Loudon Wainwright III

Think Want Write Always Up Anything

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