Yo-Yo Ma Quotes

The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take place between all parts of society: politicians, industrialists, artists, citizens, etc. That tradition, I think, still exists, but it's much, much more diluted.

Yo-Yo Ma

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Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

John Boyd Orr

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

John Irving

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Any ideas of 'other' are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of 'normal.'

Meshell Ndegeocello

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I can't live just being content. I can't have a routine. I can't be settled because then I just get really frustrated.

Tove Lo

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When I was younger, I didn't know television presenting was a thing, which is how I totally got my foot in the door. But I didn't really know that was a job. I never really had a TV or watched TV, and I really just wanted to be an actor.

Ruby Rose

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Violent extremism is going viral, but our response to it is moving at bureaucratic, sluggish speed.

Michael McCaul

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I discovered the National Coalition Against Censorship when I felt totally alone in my fight to protect intellectual freedom, and that group changed my life. I was no longer alone.

Judy Blume

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I have high standards I hold myself to, besides Christianity.

Jason David Frank

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An economy in which most citizens are doing worse year after year - an economy like America's - is not likely to do well over the long haul.

Joseph Stiglitz

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Hopefully, that people could see a progression in my performances because that's how it's always felt to me.

Christian Slater

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As an artist, we have a big influence, and we should always think if we are doing more harm than good to our viewers. We should serve as a model to them.

Coco Martin

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In what way can a revelation be made but by miracles? In none which we are able to conceive.

William S. Paley

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