Yo-Yo Ma Quotes

I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.

Yo-Yo Ma

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If you make yourself indispensable to your employer, he is not going to part with you in a hurry no matter what it costs him.

Robert Baden-Powell

YourselfYouMatterHimHurryGoing

Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.

Roger Ebert

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For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero.

Michelle Williams

DayMeKitchenActionEvery Day

I think on 'ER,' my other long-running show, I had some ideas about what's going on. 'Stargate Universe,' they were kind of secretive too a little bit about what they wanted to do, but I kind of liked working this way. I like the surprises, and I like knowing just enough to work on the character.

Ming-Na Wen

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The people of Missouri said they expect their elected leaders to support public schools because they know that education is the best economic development tool there is.

Jay Nixon

EducationBestSupportPeopleKnow

All exercise releases endorphins and makes you feel good.

Jason Statham

GoodFeel GoodFeelExerciseYou

I think every relationship has a point where you stop and reevaluate. Are you happy? Have you grown together or apart? What do you share interests in? I think that's a normal thing to do, but it's so much harder when it's done publicly.

Courteney Cox

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In a climate where governments are limited in what they can spend, trade and investment offer a path to fiscally responsible growth.

Arancha Gonzalez

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My character in 'Running With Scissors' is manic-depressive. She starts out as a wonderfully eccentric person, and then descends into a terrible illness.

Annette Bening

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I and others like me believe Timerman was chosen by President Kirshner, first as Argentina's U.N. ambassador and then as foreign minister, among other reasons because he does not hide his Jewishness and his relations with the Jewish community and, therefore, can be a 'fig leaf' for her policy.

Pepe Eliaschev

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I lift weights and I run, that's what I do.

Tyson Gay

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Israel needs to change direction, and this is not just political. We're becoming more closed-in, more isolated, more scared. Those who talk tough are making the State of Israel very weak, very isolated - very Jewish, in the Diaspora-sense, in that 'everyone is against us.' We need to get out of this.

Tzipi Livni

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